Top 44 Constitution Quotes

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The history of the Constitution of the United States hasn’t been easy. However, this historical document has still managed to withstand the test of time. With that in mind, check out the top 44 Constitution quotes.

#44 – 40. Constitution Quotes

44. The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. – Samuel Adams

43. If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. ― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

42. The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies. – Ted Yoho

41. There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ― John Adams

40. That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on. ― Margaret Atwood

#39 – 30. Constitution Quotes

39. I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. ― Bill Maher

38. Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a public safety hazard, don’t see the danger in the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like. ― Alan Dershowitz

37. God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country. – Mark Twain

36. As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. – Felix Frankfurter

35. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

34. A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either. – Thomas Paine

33. To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. – Calvin Coolidge

32. The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards. And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. – Samuel Adams

31. One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. ― Ron Paul

30. Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. – Gerald R. Ford

#29 – 20. Constitution Quotes

29. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. – Abraham Lincoln

28. A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ― James Madison

27. The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. – George Washington

26. A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. – Alexander Hamilton

25. The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. – Robert F. Kennedy

24. I love my country, not my government. ― Jesse Ventura

23. The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. – Henry Clay

22. Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. – Alexander Hamilton

21. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. ― Thomas Jefferson

20. The Constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country – Thomas Jefferson

#19 – 10. Constitution Quotes

19. The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights. – Susan B. Anthony

18. The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power. – Ayn Rand

17. The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon. – George Washington

16. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. – Anthony Kennedy

15. I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. – Thomas Jefferson

14. No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.- Cal Thomas

13. We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words: ‘We, the people.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

12. The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. ― Jeff Cooper

11. Almost all the worlds’ constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free. – Ronald Reagan

10. The fundamental principle of our constitution … enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail. – George Washington

#9 – 1. Constitution Quotes

9. There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ― James Madison

8. If we’re picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a ‘new’ Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. – Antonin Scalia

7. The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin

6. Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. – Andrew Johnson

5. Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ― Abraham Lincoln

4. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. ― Robert A. Heinlein

3. The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. James Madison

2. The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. ― Albert Einstein

1. The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. – Ayn Rand

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