Constitution Quote by George Washington

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their…

— Glenn Reynolds

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as…

— William Penn

“[T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.”

— Blaise Pascal

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

— John Gay

I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and…

— James Buchanan

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will…

— B. H. Roberts

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a…

— David Hume

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be…

— George Washington