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Amending Quotes

Quotes on amending laws, life, and mistakes

These amending quotes treat change seriously, from the gravity of amending the Constitution to the everyday Act of adjusting a life recipe over time.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Quotes by Adrian Cronauer

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Quotes by Sam Brownback

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Act Quotes

In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.

Quotes by Deb Caletti

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their...

Quotes by Charlie Pierce

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

Quotes by Ben Nighthorse Campbell

I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.

Quotes by Amy Klobuchar

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main subject of these amending quotes?
Mostly the careful process of change, whether in government, personal habits, or long-term self-improvement.
Is amending the Constitution discussed directly?
Yes, one quote insists no one takes amending the Constitution lightly, since it demands exhaustive study first.
Does life get compared to a recipe here?
Yes, one quote says life's recipe always needs amending, adding more of one thing and less of another.
What role does government responsibility play in this topic?
One quote argues citizens are responsible for amending their government's failures alongside its glories and Beauty.
Is friendship connected to the idea of amending here?
Indirectly yes, since one quote treats gently pointing out a fault as a true Act of friendship.

Government responsibility runs through several lines here, reminding readers that citizens share the duty of amending failures alongside Beauty and glory.