“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
“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 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
“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.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .”
James Madison
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
