Apathy Quote by Ezra Pound

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

— Oliver DeMille

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made…

— Jill Lepore

“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that…

— James Baldwin

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

— Bill Maher

“The United States Constitution turned 225 years old in 2012. It is the central document of American history and politics. From all sides of…

— Garrett Epps

No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not"…

— Edmund A. Opitz

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

— Samantha Power

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone…

— Molly Ivins