Constitutions Quotes

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Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.'… — Ronald Reagan
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. — Walter Lippmann
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of… — Woodrow Wilson
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in… — Benjamin Franklin
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax — Thomas Paine
Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their… — Howard Zinn
The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first… — Jeremy Rifkin
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be… — Alexander Pope
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment… — Ludwig von Mises
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again… — Thomas Jefferson
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former… — Robert E. Lee
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any. — Wendell Phillips
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict. — Daniel Pipes
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. — Algernon Sidney
The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are… — James McHenry
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials… — Hugo Black
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and… — James Russell Lowell
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders… — Roger Williams

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