Constitution Quote by William O. Douglas

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that…

— James Madison

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

— William J. Clinton

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the…

— Arthur Goldberg

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

“I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that…

— James Madison

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that…

— James Madison

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in…

— Craig Owens

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

— Horatio Seymour

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

— Arvind Kejriwal

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

— Pat Robertson