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The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

The Bill of Rights -- The Original Contract With America. Accept no substitutes. Beware of imitations. Insist on the genuine articles.