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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."

"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."

"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."

"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law."

"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."

"Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so."

"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."

"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."

"The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62."

"We have to worry about protecting the Constitution."
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"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."


"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."


"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."


"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."


"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."


"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."


"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
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