Constitution Quote by William J. Clinton

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was…

— Barbara Jordan

The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and…

— Colson Whitehead

Of the people, by the people, for the people,

— Sun Yat-sen

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak…

— Lysander Spooner

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he…

— Vaclav Havel

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the…

— Jimmy Carter

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality…

— Harry V. Jaffa

“The Declaration of Independence states that we the people have the right to revolution, the right to overthrow a government that has committed abuses…

— Rodolpho Gonzales

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen,…

— Mike Huckabee

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

— Josiah Warren

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

— Thomas Jefferson