Desire for power Quote by Mark David Ledbetter

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

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

“The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing…

— Bryant McGill

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

— Chuck Norris

“The Constitution of the United States was written in such a way as to restrain government growth and power if there was the will…

— Ben Carson

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't…

— Eamon de Valera

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made…

— Jill Lepore

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document,…

— Mike DeWine

I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

— S.E. Cupp

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

— Samantha Power

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia

We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the…

— William J. Brennan