Constitution Quote by James Madison

“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

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“But in writing your constitution let me invite attention the wonderful virtues of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the…

— John Lukacs

“Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are as a…

— Ben Carson

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't…

— Eamon de Valera

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

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

— Alex Kozinski

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

— Ed Markey

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

“In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history”

— Russell Kirk

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

— George Washington