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"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."

"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."

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

"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."

"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."

"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."

"They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened."

"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."

"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."

"It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says."
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"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."

"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."

"The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves."

"No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."

"Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family."

"Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good."

"Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States."
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