Entry 77

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau


To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.
Thomas Jefferson


So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
-- Thomas Edison


I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.
Craig Washington


From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again as to reaffirm that no one---absolutely no one---is above the law.
Leon Jaworski