The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Andrew Moraviscik, one of the best American scholars of Europe, points out that once you exclude translators and clerical workers, the European… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“In America, the only way to succeed politically is to contest your opponent at every pass; to attack every weakness, and most… — Ryan Moehring Copy Share Image
And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“In New York the curriculum guide for 11th-grade American history tells students that there were three "foundations" for the Constitution: the European… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely,… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
“Do not say that this draft, analogous to the American Constitution, is alien to the European culture and philosophy, and therefore should… — Leo Klinkers Herbet Tombeur Copy Share Image
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image