Constitution Quote by Walter E. Williams

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

— James MacGregor Burns

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to…

— Dahlia Lithwick

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this…

— Antonin Scalia

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used…

— William O. Douglas

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified…

— Doug Bandow

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

— William J. Brennan

Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule by laws.

— Ram Nath Kovind

“The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.”

— John Eidsmoe

“The banishment of the Constitution and republicanism, like the disembowelment of the Declaration of Independence and individualism, has been scrupulous. There is now a…

— Mark R. Levin

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection…

— Walter E. Williams

...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up…

— Robert E. Lee