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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
Constitution
People
Men
Congress
Rightful
Both
Masters
Courts
Overthrow
Who
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Government
Constitution
People
Made
Other
Our
Moral
Religious
Religious People
Only
Any
Inadequate
Wholly
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
You
Constitution
Yourself
People
Only
Gives
Pursue
Catch
Right
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
Constitution
Our
Liberties
Must
Only
Maintained
Safeguard
Anything
Interfere
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
Robert Kennedy
Justice
Constitution
Women
Law
Men
Men And Women
Society
Our
Constitute
Lawyers
Majesty
Protected
Protector
Glory
Courts
Nor
Officers
Just
Themselves
Created
Who
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison
Constitution
Trust
People
Nation
Every
Preserves
Other
Possess
Advantage
Almost
Over
Armed
Arms
Governments
American
Afraid
Being
Where
Which
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Constitution
People
Words
World
Three
Starts
Out
Written
Force
Still
Oldest
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
Constitution
People
Own
States
Citizens
Prevent
Shall
Never
Arms
Who
Peaceable
United
United States
Keeping
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
B. R. Ambedkar
Good
Constitution
Will
Those
Bad
Implementing
Prove
However
May
Who
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams
Freedom
Constitution
Worth
Country
Duty
Our
Liberties
Civil
Attacks
Hazards
Against
Them
Defend
Defending
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
You
Constitution
Yourself
Only
Pursuit
Catch
Up
Guarantee
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Constitution
Political
Live
Greatest
Accorded
Privilege
American
Human
Race
Human Race
Ever
The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
Ted Yoho
Constitution
Together
Conservative
Opportunity
Values
Black
White
Liberal
Our
Those
Neither
Dream
Ideas
Democrat
Protected
Ideologies
Principles
American
American Dream
Republican
Held
Founding
Core
Core Values
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
Change
Constitution
Enemy
Tyranny
Free
Free Speech
Revolution
Framers
Knew
Also
Deadliest
Always
Friend
Speech
Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
Robin Hayes
Constitution
Army
Air Force
Commitment
Enemies
Nation
Guard
Marines
Took
Our
Air
Those
Oath
Never
Never Forget
Importance
Protect
Force
Foreign
Continue
Domestic
Forget
Uphold
Against
Coast
Coast Guard
Who
Navy
Serve
Served
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers
Constitution
Alien
Our
Drunks
Protects
Senators
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Constitution
Has-Been
One Thing
Case
Prevent
Had
Powerless
Another
Been
Exist
Authorized
Unfit
Whether
Either
Much
Really
Certain
Thing
Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.
Edward Snowden
Service
Government
Constitution
Country
Else
Those
Above
Countries
Adversaries
Countrymen
Protect
Knowing
Foreign
Foreign Countries
Being
Patriot
Mean
Means
Your
Violations
For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.
Robert Mueller
Justice
Constitution
Trust
Women
Obligation
Equality
Liberty
Law
Men
Men And Women
Country
Duty
Most
Also
Faithfulness
Fidelity
Us
Means
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
Nature
Ignorance
Constitution
Confusion
Honor
Virtue
Circulation
Distress
Arise
Confederation
America
Want
Much
Downright
Credit
Defects
Coin
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
Andrew Jackson
Constitution
Rights
Worth
Judiciary
Nothing
Virtuous
Independent
Secured
Citizens
Except
Bubble
Mere
Them
Guaranteed
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham
Freedom
Religion
Constitution
Framers
Our
Freedom From
Freedom Of Religion
Were
Meant
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
War
Constitution
Power
Congress
Shall
Importance
Until
Undertaken
Subject
Offensive
Authorized
Expedition
After
Declaring
Measure
Therefore
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
John Roberts
Government
Day
Constitution
Every Day
Abuse Of Power
Too Much
Power
Every
Too
Those
Ensuring
No-One
Abuse
Protect
American
Authority
Ordinary
Against
Much
Helps
If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them.
Chuck Norris
Constitution
Rights
Light
Political
Independence
First
Action
Every
Our
States
Thoroughly
Must
Citizens
About
Purpose
Learn
Documents
Testing
America
Uphold
Manifesto
Declaration
Them
Turn
Bill
Communist
Bill Of Rights
Each
United
Away
United States
Founding
Preserve
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
Man
Constitution
Will
Wrap
Himself
Flag
Burn
Prefer
Then
Who
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