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"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
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"Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family."
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"For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want."
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"We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government."
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"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written."
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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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"I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing."
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"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
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"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."
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"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence."
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"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."
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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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"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."
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"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
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"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
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"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."
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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
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"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
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"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
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"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
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"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."
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