"The people shall not be deprived or abridged……" — James Madison

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• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
• There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry
• Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. — Berkeley Breathed
• The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion… — James Madison
• Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. — Michel de Montaigne
• All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson
• Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so;… — Benjamin Franklin
• Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of… — James Madison
• In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names… — Arthur Koestler
• Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state… — Alice Paul
• Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of… — Jason Epstein
• By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a… — Judith Sargent Murray

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