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“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .”
James Madison
“I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Samuel Adams
“I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government”
Brigham Young
“It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man”
John Adams
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”
Will Rogers
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the Constitution”
Margaret Heckler
“Nothing from man's hands, no law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.”
Charles Sumner