Anxious Quote by Patrick Henry

I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the…

— Patrick Henry

We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was…

— Barbara Jordan

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

— Charles T. Canady

“people. We only have the authorities granted to us by the United States Congress on behalf of the American people.”

— Historica Press

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

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

— Alan Siegel

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

U.S.A. is the speech of the people

— John Dos Passos

“Our citizens must act as Americans; not as Americans with a prefix and qualifications; not as Irish-Americans, German-Americans, native Americans—but as Americans pure and…

— Mary Beth Smith

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

— Thomas Paine

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

— Anonymous

“Any place where they got to vote on whether English is the official language don’t belong in the United States.”

— Patricia Cornwell