Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance tha

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

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Among the numerous luxuries of the table…coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions…is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. – Benjamin Franklin

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. – Walter Lippmann

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There is a higher law than the Constitution. – William Seward

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The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. – James Madison

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Author Unknown

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The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. – Paul Gillmor

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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. – W. H. Auden

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I fear thee not, O untried morrow! – Julia B. Cady (d.1869), “New-Year Thoughts,” in Sabbath at Home, January 1870

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