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"Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor."
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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
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"Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum."
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"My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it."
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"The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches."
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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."
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"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
Man
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
God
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
Pain
"Reform, that we may preserve."
Reform
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
Action
"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be."
History
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
Age
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