Constitution Of The United States Quotes - Page 6

• Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

  Lord Acton

  Mother, Country, Powerful

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• Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.

  Brigham Young

  Hands, Years, Organization

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• I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

  Brigham Young

  Government, United States, Constitution

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• I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

  David O. McKay

  Home, America, Desire

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• It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.

  David O. McKay

  Wise, Believe, Men

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• Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Justice, Soul

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• I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Government, Republic

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.125, Heyday

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• The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.

  Chuck Todd

  United States, Doe, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Writing, Criticism, United States

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Strong, Independent, Thinking

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Justice, United States, Constitution

  Source: time.com

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