Framers Quote by Dahlia Lithwick

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

— Walter E. Williams

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Billy Graham

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used…

— William O. Douglas

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

— Henry Steele Commager

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified…

— Doug Bandow

“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

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

— Pat Riley

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the…

— William O. Douglas

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

— Barack Obama

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

— James MacGregor Burns

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep…

— Nick Rahall