Constitution Quote by David Starkey

“The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of their administrative…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

— Ted Yoho

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

— Alexander Hamilton

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'

— Keir Starmer

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the…

— Plato

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be…

— Alexander Hamilton

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

— James Bovard

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

— Ralph Nader

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

— Michael Portillo

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a…

— John Quincy Adams