Constitution Quote by Benjamin Cardozo

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

— Anonymous

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

— Salmon P. Chase

While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion

— Byron Goines

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I…

— Abraham Lincoln

“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not…

— James Madison

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

— Alexander Hamilton

...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up…

— Robert E. Lee

“I, sir, take a different view of the whole matter. I look upon Ohio and South Carolina to be parts of one whole—parts of…

— Robert A. Caro

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

— Abraham Lincoln

“But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of its climates,…

— George Clinton

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their…

— William H. Seward