Constitution Quote by Joseph Story

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

— Romano Prodi

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

— Gerald R Ford

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one of my…

— Noam Chomsky

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

“In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art…

— Plato

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

Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the…

— Joseph Story

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

The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women in these…

— David O. McKay