Constitution quotes

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◆ The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

- Patrick Henry100

◆ Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ [I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

- Daniel Webster99

◆ The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

- Wendell Willkie99

◆ The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

- Mwai Kibaki99

◆ It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

- Molly Ivins99

◆ The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

- Samuel Adams99

◆ Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

- George W Bush99

◆ I will not lay down and put this narrow, stubborn agenda ahead of our families, ahead of our Constitution, and ahead of our values. We are a proud nation that respects the rights of the minority, values the separation of church and state, and believes in honesty and personal responsibility.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every

- Henry Brooks Adams99

◆ There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had such a mastery of legal principles: Why, they had so few books

- Wallace Stevens99

◆ The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out paper.

- Dave Barry99

◆ From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

- Leon Jaworski99

◆ The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

- Jason Laumark99

◆ I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag

- Craig Washington99