Constitution Quote by C.L. Gammon

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

— John Marshall

“The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.”

— John Eidsmoe

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

“When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying…

— Howard Zinn

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its…

— Jack N. Rakove

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

“There was a good Constitution in America, and he had read it carefully. It gave liberty, but he recognized that it worked only for…

— Noah Gordon

“Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order is unending,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“. . . a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.”

— John Marshall

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson