4th of july Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain…

— Benjamin Franklin

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become…

— Benjamin Franklin

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

— Thomas Sowell

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect…

— Kevin Gutzman

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor…

— Tommy Franks

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of…

— Thomas Jefferson

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now…

— Lysander Spooner

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American]…

— John C. Calhoun

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the…

— Woodrow Wilson

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

— Gore Vidal

I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say…

— Antonin Scalia