“I will continue to fulfil my responsibilities to safeguard the constitution, Lebanese laws and the integrity of Lebanese territory.”
Emile Lahoud
“The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities to safeguard the Constitution, Lebanese laws and the integrity of Lebanese territory.”
Detlev Mehlis
“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon”
George Washington
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison
“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes”
Benjamin Franklin
“The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular states. There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.”