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Constitutional Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point…
- Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
- Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
- As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
- A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly…
- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their…
- A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only…
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- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
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- The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. — Hugo Black
- The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork
- The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. — James Bovard