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 Macaulay
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
The art of making much show with little substance.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
