“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black
“The idea will be to have a broad-based government and then next year, to move to a new constitution, and then finally to democratic elections ... so who's going to end up governing Iraq ultimately? It's going to be the Iraqi people with a democratic constitution,”
Tony Blair
“The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The difficulty to form a government and reshape the constitution is now becoming huge. Hakim will find it now impossible to make meaningful concessions to the Sunnis.”
Amatzia Baram
“It will be an interim government, and they will be working toward a constitution that's acceptable to indigenous people of this country.”
Josefa Nata
“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 Henry
