Experience Quote by Ferdinand Marcos

“. . . a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.”

— John Marshall

What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall…

— Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.

— George W. Bush

“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

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the…

— James K. Polk

Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the…

— Joseph Story

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

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

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it…

— Thomas Paine

[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