Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
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Bill Moyers
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform...
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Thomas Jefferson
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor; — let every man remember that to violate the law,...
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Abraham Lincoln
[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.
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John Updike
If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian constitutional monarchy. Yet this was no time to demonstrate loathing of the upstart nation; condescension could wait...
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A.H. Septimius
More Quotes By Charles Evans Hughes
We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.
While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
