Constitution Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of…

— Samuel Adams

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

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a…

— Thomas Paine

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to…

— Clarence Darrow

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means…

— Frederick Douglass

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a…

— Thomas Paine