American constitution Quote by William E. Gladstone

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

— Dahlia Lithwick

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

— Thurgood Marshall

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand…

— Calvin Coolidge

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

“The Constitution was a reaffirmation of faith in the principles painfully evolved over the centuries by the English-speaking peoples. It enshrined long-standing English ideas…

— Winston S. Churchill

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

— Queen Elizabeth II

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while…

— Walter Bagehot

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

— John Adams