Constitution Quote by Thomas Paine

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a…

— Thomas Paine

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his…

— William O. Douglas

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

The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void…

— Thomas Jefferson

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only…

— Ayn Rand

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government…

— Rush Limbaugh