Common people Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its…

— George Washington

“Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from…

— James Iredell

“. . . a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.”

— John Marshall

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because…

— George Orwell

“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

[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what…

— Gordon S. Wood

“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…

— Bernard Bailyn

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson

“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

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams