Freedom Quote by John Marshall

I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended…

— Joe Biden

“Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;”

— Jeremy Paxman

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times…

— Felix Frankfurter

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

— John Marshall

“Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order is unending,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

— John Marshall

“Where there is a constitution, there is always the politics of negotiated or compromised power.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds

“In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution,”

— Ben Carson

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

— John Adams