Constitution Quote by Stephen Breyer

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

— Adam Davidson

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential…

— Margaret Thatcher

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'

— Keir Starmer

Any kind of new U.K. federal system would almost certainly demand the creation of a written constitution. Properly drafted, such a document could, among…

— Linda Colley

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

— Rush Limbaugh

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't…

— Eamon de Valera

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

— Antonin Scalia

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among that country’s…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic…

— Roger Rosenblatt

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,…

— Aristotle