Constitution Quote by Caleb Cushing

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of…

— Caleb Cushing

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

— Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question…

— Caleb Cushing

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part…

— Caleb Cushing

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission…

— Caleb Cushing

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot…

— Caleb Cushing

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

— Caleb Cushing

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon…

— Caleb Cushing

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States,…

— Caleb Cushing

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

— Caleb Cushing

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

— Caleb Cushing

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the…

— Caleb Cushing