I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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