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“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”

Henry Clay quotes (American Statesman, US congressman (1811-14, 1815-21, 1823-25) and US senator (1806-07, 1810-11, 1831-42, 1849-52), 1777-1852)

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“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use”

Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)

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“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)

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“The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax”

Thomas Paine quotes (English born American Writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)

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“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .”

James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)

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“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)

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“I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation”

Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”

Thurgood Marshall quotes (American Jurist and Lawyer. 1908-1993)

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“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”

William Orville Douglas quotes

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“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written”

Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)

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