Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The Constitution is simply a sign that says “keep off the grass.”

The Constitution is a document that SHOULD be beyond argument.

Compromise created the Constitution.

The founders did not trust human beings, and that is what the Constitution is about.

The Constitution of the United States is not a suicide pact.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power.

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

I was in Europe when the Constitution was planned, and never saw it till after it was established. On receiving it, I wrote strongly to Mr. Madison, urging the want of provision for... an express reservation to the States of all rights not specifically granted to the Union

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

The Constitution was formed for our whole country

David Addington does not believe in the Constitution

The Constitution was made chiefly because of the demands of Commerce.

The Federal government we have today is unimaginable in the perspective of the Americans who debated the ratification of the original constitution.

I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be central and the parties must be peripheral.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

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

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.