Rafael Cruz Quotes

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

The Declaration of Independence is no part of the Constitution or of any other book.

Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.

The Constitution of the United States [is] the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

The Declaration is a magnificent document.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Founding Fathers

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

The author of our constitution, James Madison, … would be aghast

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly innovative and important document.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.