Creation Quote by Orson Squire Fowler

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

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the…

— James C. Scott

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be…

— Alexander Hamilton

Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the…

— William J. Brennan

“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.”

— Erin Moure

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.”

— George Washington

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest…

— John Adams

“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion … It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but…

— Woodrow Wilson