Constitution Quote by Anonymous

After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts…

— Mike DeWine

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The Constitution was a reaffirmation of faith in the principles painfully evolved over the centuries by the English-speaking peoples. It enshrined long-standing English ideas…

— Winston S. Churchill

Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired…

— Ronald Reagan

The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

— Horatio Seymour

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of…

— Steve King

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United…

— Abraham Lincoln

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the…

— Eliot Spitzer

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often…

— John Stuart Mill

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds