Constitution Quote by Andrew Johnson

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Let them impeach and be damned.

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I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am…

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The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

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When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

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I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I…

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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument…

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Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

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If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

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There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

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Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties…

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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national…

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive…

Abraham Lincoln

“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by the sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the…

Jack Weatherford

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,…

Edmund Burke

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

Henry David Thoreau

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While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some…

Paul Gillmor

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There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee…

Nawal El Saadawi

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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

Thomas Jefferson

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Winston Churchill

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The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is…

Joe Pitts

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Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Sumner

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“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been my language, it was from the habit of using strong phrases to express my ideas; and, above all, from the interesting nature of the subject. I have ever condemned those cold, unfeeling hearts, which no object…

Alexander Hamilton