Quotes about Constitution

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

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

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are "We the people," its most important principle, freedom.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.