America Quote by Dane Whalen

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

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do:…

— Kevin Gutzman

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man.…

— Lysander Spooner

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived…

— David E. Wilkins

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

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

— Theodore Roosevelt

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

— Kamal Haasan

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

— Lindsey Graham

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that…

— John Marshall

“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

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson