"Though written constitutions may be violated in..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
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“We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.”
“For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.”
“The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.”
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“The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.”
“Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.”
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
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“I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.”
“A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.”
“I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.”