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- There is no greater power on this earth than story.†Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words…
- People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History
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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… — Thomas Jefferson
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that… — Thomas Jefferson
- A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — Joseph Addison
- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison
- I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false… — Learned Hand
- Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority… — William Howard Taft
- Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story
- That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the… — Walt Whitman