Capable Quote by Leonard Read

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses…

— Neal A. Maxwell

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any…

— William J. Brennan

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

— Abraham Lincoln

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the…

— Plato

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.

— Ron Paul

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power,…

— Thomas Sowell

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

— Daniel Webster

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

“The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of their administrative…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

— Katharine Hepburn