Constitution Quote by Lysander Spooner

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

— Felix Frankfurter

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

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall

I'm not an expert on the Constitution but I know the Constitution exists for a reason. It exists to protect human beings, to protect…

— Shakira

“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

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that…

— James Madison

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and…

— B. R. Ambedkar

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this…

— Joe Miller

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine