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It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.
- Gordon Hinckley
I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.
- Brigham Young
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
- John Adams
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
- Frederick Douglass
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
- Thomas Jefferson
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
- Thomas Paine
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
- George Washington
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
- Will Rogers