Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said…

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which…

— Frank Herbert

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he…

— Frank Herbert

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own…

— Aristotle

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while…

— Walter Bagehot

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

— Stephen Breyer

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It…

— Thomas Paine

“Modern national constitutions usually contain references to international law.”

— Anonymous

State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What…

— Eugene Fama

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

— Lyman Beecher

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future…

— James Madison

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the…

— Jeremy Rifkin