Constitution Quote by Robert Breault

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

— George Orwell

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may…

— Thomas Jefferson

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

— Harry Browne

“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

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a…

— B. R. Ambedkar

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

— Ed Markey

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single…

— Frederick Douglass

“Power corrupts: What we mean by this is that, in the absence of language enforced guarantees (i.e. restrictions on the power of the language)…

— Peter Mark Ben Mosele

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia