Constitution Quote by Edward Gibbon

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,

— Ron Paul

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

— John Adams

As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive…

— Mickey Edwards

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we…

— John C. Calhoun

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be…

— Thomas Jefferson

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than…

— John Adams

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

— Roy Moore

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

— Steve Stockman

Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if…

— John Marshall

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