Constitutional convention Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a…

— Benjamin Franklin

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded,…

— Glenn Beck

“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one of my…

— Noam Chomsky

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of…

— Steve King

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and brainpower than…

— James D. Best

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start…

— Colin Powell

Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It is a…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“This was a powerful argument for Washington, who had gone to Philadelphia feeling that the war would be incomplete without a new Constitution; now,…

— Ron Chernow

“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but what had…

— Richard M. Ketchum

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

— Robert Bork