Quote by Caleb Cushing
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the P

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. – Caleb Cushing

Other quotes by Caleb Cushing

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. – Caleb Cushing

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Intelligence
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? – Caleb Cushing

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Faith
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us. – Ralph Peters

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You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybodys switching to a computer. And Im sort of laughed at. – Robert Caro

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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne

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