Admonition Quote by Alexander Hamilton

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but…

— William J. Brennan

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe…

— Thomas Jefferson

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This…

— James Madison

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, all the peace and happiness, of…

— Edmund Burke

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

— Gerald R. Ford

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral…

— Edmund Yates