Aim Quote by Maximilien Robespierre

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and…

— Russell Kirk

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired…

— Ronald Reagan

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,…

— Aristotle

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there…

— Anonymous

The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and…

— James Madison

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it…

— Gustav Radbruch

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

— Cornel West

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

— Bill Clinton

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a…

— Fisher Ames