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  • “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take the children and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of Government may engage it? ”
    Daniel Webster , Speech in Congress · View
  • “Had Plato been a citizen of this country, he would have admired our Constitution as the best practical realization of his ideal republic. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Speech at New York Ratifying Convention · View
  • “All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights... ”
    George Mason , Virginia Declaration of Rights · View
  • “The division of the republic into two great parties... is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Jonathan Jackson · View
  • “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties... This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Jonathan Jackson · View
  • “The Constitution was never designed to accommodate the spirit of faction. ”
    John Adams , Notes on Government · View
  • “The Constitution must guard against the spirit of faction, lest it destroy the very liberties it seeks to protect. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Convention Notes · View
  • “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ”
    John Adams , Letter to the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “The inestimable right of trial by jury shall remain confirmed without repeal forever. ”
    David Brearley , New Jersey Constitution (cited in Holmes v. Walton) · View
  • “The legislature cannot alter constitutional guarantees by ordinary statute. ”
    David Brearley , Holmes v. Walton (paraphrased) · View
  • “Let us resolve the postponed matters with clarity and unity. ”
    David Brearley , Constitutional Convention (committee chair) · View
  • “Let us take care of our constitution and liberty will take care of itself. ”
    John Dickinson , Letter from a Farmer No. 4 · View
  • “A single step, beyond the bounds of the constitution, may lead to an abyss of despotism. ”
    John Dickinson , Letter from a Farmer No. 1 · View
  • “The Parliament unquestionably possesses a legal authority to regulate trade but not to raise revenue. ”
    John Dickinson , Letter from a Farmer No. 2 · View
  • “A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle of all free governments. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist Papers No. 78 · View
  • “A constitution founded on the principles of liberty and equality must be preserved with vigilance. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Thomas Jefferson · View
  • “The Constitution is the property of the people. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Speech to the Convention · View
  • “The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ”
    John Adams , Letter to the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “The Constitution is the cement of the Union, and the safeguard of our liberties. ”
    James Wilson , Speech to the Pennsylvania Convention · View
  • “The Constitution is designed to break and control the violence of faction. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “The Constitution is the cement of the Union, and the safeguard of our liberties. ”
    James Madison , Speech to the House of Representatives · View
  • “[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. ”
    John Adams , The Works of John Adams · View
  • “The Constitution is not founded on the Christian religion, but it does not prohibit its practice. ”
    James Madison , Letter to Edward Livingston · View

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