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 //**--George Washington**//
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+**Article V Day quote:** \\
+If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
+- George Washington
+{{:documents:quotes:g_washington-article_v_day.png?direct&400|George Washington, Article V Day Meme}}
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 //**--Abraham Lincoln **//(from his first inaugural address - March 4, 1861)
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+“All that is granted us by the 5th article is that, whenever we shall think it necessary, we may propose amendments to the Constitution; not that we may propose to repeal the old and substitute a new one.”
+//** Roger Sherman Aug 13, 1789 **// \\
+https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=001%2Fllac001.db&recNum=372
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 The Constitution provides for both methods and the Convention is a safety valve giving the people a chance to act if Congress refuses to.”
---then //Governor Ronald Reagan// (in his radio address on 2/13/79)
+--then //**Governor Ronald Reagan**// (in his radio address on 2/13/79)
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+“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
+-- //**Samuel Adams**//, (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
+"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace.  We seek not your counsel nor your arms.  Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."
+-- //**Samuel Adams**//
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+===== George Washington =====
+**On political parties.**
+"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
+Farewell Address | Saturday, September 17, 1796
+http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/quotes/article/however-political-parties-may-now-and-then-answer-popular-ends-they-are-likely-in-the-course-of-time-and-things-to-become-potent-engines-by-which-cunning-ambitious-and-unprincipled-men-will-be-enabled-to-subvert-the-power-of-the-people-and-to-usurp-for-th/
 ===== Ronald Reagan =====