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• For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

  Plato

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• People have a fundamental right to organize. It’s rooted very much in the Constitution and people’s right to free association.

  Martin Heinrich

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  The greatest danger to american freedom is a government that ignores the constitution.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Republicans have been pointing out that the Democrats platform contains no mentions of God. Neither does the U.S. Constitution.

  Rachel Maddow

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• There’s no debt limit in the Constitution.

  James Surowiecki

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• I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

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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

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  One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

  Ron Paul

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• The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

  Bernie Sanders

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• We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

  Kevin Rudd

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• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  Salmon P Chase

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• All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets – they’re not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

  Gary Locke

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• Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in – the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill – and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

  Mo Rocca

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• The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don’t.

  Byron Dorgan

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• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  Pat Robertson

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• Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

  Ben Nelson

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• The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

  Francis Biddle

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• Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  Ted Cruz

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