The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the…

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together…

— Alan Keyes

We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government.

— Wendy Long

I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of…

— Thomas Hardiman

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute…

— Elihu Root

“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion … It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but…

— Woodrow Wilson

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a…

— Elihu Root

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain…

— Thurgood Marshall

It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has…

— John C. Calhoun

It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature…

— Alexander Hamilton

China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By…

— Sun Yat-sen

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth…

— Huey Newton