(1085 quotes found)
“Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Nothing from man's hands, no law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.”
Charles Sumner
“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes”
Benjamin Franklin
“I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it”
Andrew Johnson
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
Lysander Spooner
“Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere”
Robert Bork
“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it”
Felix Frankfurter
“A Constitution should be short and obscure”
Napoleon Bonaparte
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