It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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