"My faith in the Constitution is whole,it is complete, it is total"

"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."
Barbara Jordan
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/barbara_jordan_2.htm

If there are any other ispiring Constitution quotes you'd like to add please do .

And I wholeheartedly concur.:patriot:

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." - Albert Einstein

thanks for sharing it

"I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive." - William Wells Brown

"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

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious
day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last
and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H. L. Mencken

Seems I've read posts from you about him in the past. I have his quotes bookmarked myself. What a guy, eh? He and Tom Paine. The coolest!

The chief objection to the New England Puritans, of course, is . . . that they cursed the country with crude cookery and uneatable victuals. The pumpkin pie, clam chowder, the mince pie, pork and beans--these are some of the awful things we have inherited from those gross amd chilblained moralists. The common notion that they also gave us roast turkey, with its attendant sauce of cranberries, is an error arising out of the imbecility of the persons who manufacture covers for the November magazines. As a matter of fact, the turkey was unknown in New England until the downfall of the theocracy and the repeal of the blue laws against intellectual eating. The customary Thanksgiving fowl, in witch-burning days, was the common jack rabbit, with the puddle duck as an occasional variant. The turkey, as every sophomore in victuality is aware, really hails from Virginia, and the cranberry from the miasmatic marshes of New Jersey...

--H.L. Mencken, "The Fried Smelt," Baltimore _Evening Sun_, 1910 December 17.

"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."

Thanks for sharing

one time on an airplane to D.C.

caught my attention - and that is saying something given that I grew up in a home that had a "Nixon's The One" button on the wall from the time he campaigned for the Presidency until the time I went away to college (1984).

"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. "

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thanks for sharing that Steve_DeShazer