Accounts Quote by David Cannadine

Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of…

— John Adams

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all,…

— Aristotle

“Its spirit was animated by the same love of representative government and respect for the rule of law that had produced England’s unwritten constitution…

— Paul Johnson

The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among…

— Patrick Henry

“Second Treatise of Government by John Locke.”

— Charles River Editors

If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define…

— John Adams

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“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

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work…

— William E. Gladstone

“English political sagacity is compounded of instinctive reactions to immediate situations and a wisdom, gained by cumulative experience, which guides instinct through the complexities,…

— Reinhold Neibuhr

“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom. Burke was…

— Mark R. Levin

“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but…

— Woodrow Wilson