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"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."
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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."

"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."

"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law."
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"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"

"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."

"I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!"
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