Constitution Quotes

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
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. View quote
Samuel Adams
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. View quote
James Madison
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. View quote
James K. Polk
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. View quote
William O. Douglas
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. View quote
William O. Douglas
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. (Adam Weishaupt)
Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome. View quote
John Rawls
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution. View quote
Glenn Beck
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. View quote
Henry Clay
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. View quote
Salmon P. Chase
If the constitution goes, I go. View quote
Kamisese Mara
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
One country, one constitution, one destiny. View quote
Daniel Webster
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams