We hold these truths
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice – that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through … Read more
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The First Amendment of the US Constitution … is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment’s prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment’s prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments. Frank … Read more
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it … It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. Daniel Webster
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions Daniel Webster
I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag. Craig Washington
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. Charles Evans Hughes
Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation’s founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. “… shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the … Read more
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin