Constitution Quote by Samuel Adams

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government…

— James Madison

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

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

— Algernon Sidney

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

— Frank Lloyd Wright