Affair Quote by William E. Gladstone

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

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work…

— William E. Gladstone

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This…

— James Madison

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made…

— Jill Lepore

“the country made itself stronger, more egalitarian, more effective in the world precisely during the mid-twentieth-century period when jurists were most willing to seek…

— Michael Waldman

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly…

— Linda Colley

“In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history”

— Russell Kirk

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

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and…

— Thurgood Marshall