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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be read more
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
A Constitution should be short and obscure
A Constitution should be short and obscure
I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who read more
I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people read more
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
