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It was but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the Constitutions under which we now live, and now we are unsheathing our swords to overturn them.
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Beck highlights Washington's dismay at the irony of fighting for the Constitution only to threaten it.
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If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
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