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Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I… — Luther Burbank
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to… — John Henninger Reagan
Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made reference… — Harold B. Lee
Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew… — Will Rogers
That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of… — Marcus Garvey
A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions.… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the… — Gerald R. Ford
That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led… — Gerald R. Ford
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. — Charles Colson
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution. — Alexander Hamilton
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and… — Thomas Jefferson
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and… — Ronald Reagan
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia
The conscience of this nation is the Constitution. — William O. Douglas
The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last. — Anthony Kennedy
You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not.… — William J. Brennan
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. — William J. Brennan
Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine. — Vasant Lad
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free… — H. L. Mencken

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