Constitution Quote by Max Baucus

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not…

— Andrew Napolitano

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Billy Graham

The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink…

— Frederick Douglass

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

While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts…

— Alexander Hamilton

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain…

— George Will

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the…

— Alexander Hamilton

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality…

— Robert Bork

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

— John Adams