Quote by Tom Clancy

“Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish…

— Frank Herbert

“It all seemed like an election fable, like many that had been cooked up to confuse the voters about the integrity of the election.”

— Donna Brazile

“It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft…

— Laurie Notaro

“Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order is unending,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“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

“There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election…

— John Brunner

“As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and…

— Orson Scott Card

“The founding fathers, whose infinite wisdom gave us a Constitution and form of government well nigh perfect, located the seat of that government in…

— Mark Leibovich

“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old republic had no correspondence to the…

— John Williams

“They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really…

— Jay Leno

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

— John Marshall