Constitution Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

— Thurgood Marshall

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work…

— William E. Gladstone

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

— Woodrow Wilson

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

— Steve Scalise

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential…

— Margaret Thatcher

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single…

— Frederick Douglass

“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 is what the judges say it is, every time.

— Fred Rodell

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

— Oswald Spengler