Constitution Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

— Oswald Spengler

What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall…

— Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

— Oliver DeMille

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there…

— Anonymous

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

— William J. Clinton

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses…

— Neal A. Maxwell

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that…

— Felix Frankfurter

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 Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made…

— Jill Lepore