Permanent Constitution

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“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)