Famous quotes containing the words constitution, fundamental, liberties and/or article:
“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.”
—Patrick, Mrs. Campbell (1865–1940)
“We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Nature’s law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)