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17 quotesA constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Politicians and Politics
Walter Bagehot
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Constitutions
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
America
John Ciardi
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Ramsey Clark
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Calvin Coolidge
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Compassion
Everett M. Dirksen
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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Government
William O. Douglas
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Constitutions
Gerald R. Ford
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Liberty
Edward Gibbon
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Contradiction
Thomas Hardy
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And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Constitutions
Henry Kissinger
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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Constitutions
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Constitutions
Thomas B. Macaulay
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Constitutions
Joseph De Maistre
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There is a higher law than the Constitution.
Constitutions
William Seward
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Unity
Daniel Webster
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun