Politics Quote by Ron Chernow

“From my childhood days I have understood that we believe absolutely that the Constitution of our country was an inspired instrument, and that God…

— Heber J. Grant

“As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and…

— Orson Scott Card

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson

“To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.”

— Isaac Asimov

“It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the Civil War,…

— Edward S. Greenberg

“The constitution had nothing to do with it. It was, after all, a matter of national security.”

— Stieg Larsson

“The whole stress of Washington’s presidency, underlined by his farewell, was on the absolute necessity to obey the Constitution. As he said on many…

— Paul Johnson

“The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.”

— Albert Camus

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

— John Marshall

“Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.”

— Lawrence Goldstone

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.”

— David Hackett Fischer