Broken Quote by Robert E. Lee

...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up…

— Robert E. Lee

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

— James MacGregor Burns

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

— Woodrow Wilson

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

— Walter E. Williams

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams

“The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

— Anonymous

There was a fear among the original framers that the federal government would be so strong that they might destroy the state militias.

— John Paul Stevens

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

— Daniel Webster

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long…

— Benjamin Cardozo

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

— Anthony Lewis

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

— Charles Edison