Balance Quote by Frank Herbert

“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

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,…

— Aristotle

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic…

— Gerald R. Ford

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

— Felix Frankfurter

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and…

— B. R. Ambedkar

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses…

— Neal A. Maxwell

In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve…

— Alex Kozinski