War Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be…

— George Washington

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.”

— Margaret Atwood

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and…

— Robert E. Lee

The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its…

— James Madison

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their…

— William H. Seward

“To have submitted it to the legislative discretion of the States, would have been improper for the same reason; and for the additional reason…

— James Madison

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened…

— Caleb Cushing

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

— John Marshall

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton