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Constitution Quotes by Patrick Henry
- The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other…
- My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to…
- ....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of…
- What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?
- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -…
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- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no… — Michele Bachmann
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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams
- The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black
- And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we… — John Boehner
- The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay