“Constitution Doesn't Have A Preamble. Not. Nope. Stop it.”

Source: The Rules for Hearts

Letter to his son http://radgeek.com/gt/2005/01/03/robert-e-Lee-owned-slaves-and-defended-slavery/, G. W. Custis Lee (23 January 1861). <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Context: I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It is intended for &#x27;perpetual Union,&#x27; so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled. It is idle to talk of secession: anarchy would have been established, and not a government, by Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and all the other patriots of the Revolution. … Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. I shall mourn for my country and for the welfare and progress of mankind. If the Union is dissolved and the Government disrupted, I shall return to my native State and share the miseries of my people, and, save in defense will draw my sword on none.

News conference, Washington, D.C., reported in The New York Times (February 25, 1971), p. 38.

Interview for Academy of Achievement http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ken0int-1 (3 June 2005).

Dhoni doesn't give up midway. Halfway through a series, he was asked if India were beaten already.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Remarks during an oval office meeting (November 2005), attributed in Doug Thompson, Bush on the Constitution: &#x27;It&#x27;s just a goddamned piece of paper&#x27;&quot; http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml, Capitol Hill Blue (9 December 2005). Thompson has since retracted this claim, explaining: &quot;When some White House sources came to me with a story that claimed George W. Bush called the Constitution a &#x27;god damned piece of paper, I believed it without question because of my personal prejudices against Bush. I now believe I was wrong and that the incident never happened. The story in our database was modified to reflect my belief that I was lied to about the statement and I was wrong to print it&quot; ( &quot;Judge us now to see if we have learned from the past&quot; http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/37544, Capitol Hill Blue (1 January 2011)). <br class="br">Attributed, Disputed