Animal Quote by Thomas Jefferson

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to…

— Antonin Scalia

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

— Henry Clay

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

— Charles Edison

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

— Thurgood Marshall

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

— Mwai Kibaki

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary…

— Benjamin Franklin

Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect…

— Kevin Gutzman