Ambassadors Quote by Nat Hentoff

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly…

— Linda Colley

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

“As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…

— David McCullough

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted…

— Gordon S. Wood

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

— Rush Limbaugh

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of…

— Linda Colley

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. —Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to James Madison” (1787)”

— Raine Miller

“The whole stress of Washington’s presidency, underlined by his farewell, was on the absolute necessity to obey the Constitution. As he said on many…

— Paul Johnson

“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…

— Charles River Editors

“The Constitution was a reaffirmation of faith in the principles painfully evolved over the centuries by the English-speaking peoples. It enshrined long-standing English ideas…

— Winston S. Churchill

“2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta,…

— Winston Churchill