Constitution Quote by John Jay Hooker

“our Constitution can be understood by any American with average intelligence and minimal education.”

— Joseph Befumo

“Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written…

— Ben Carson

“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

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

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This…

— James Madison

The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get…

— David Mamet

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly…

— Linda Colley

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

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

Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets,…

— Ross Perot