"No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes"
Read quote
9 likes
Constitution quotes
Constitution
485 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Constitution
Browse quotes that often appear alongside constitution — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Constitution quotes (page 3 of 25)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."
Read quote
8 likes
"There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law."
Read quote
8 likes
"Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!"
Read quote
8 likes
"The Constitution is what the judges say it is."
Read quote
8 likes
"It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself."
Read quote
8 likes
"Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power."
Read quote
8 likes
"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."
Read quote
8 likes
"Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."
Read quote
7 likes
"Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn."
Read quote
7 likes
"I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution."
Read quote
7 likes
"The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray"
Read quote
7 likes
"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
Read quote
7 likes
"We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people"
Read quote
7 likes
"Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not."
Read quote
7 likes
"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."
Read quote
6 likes
"Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution."
Read quote
6 likes
"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
Read quote
6 likes
"Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?"
Read quote
6 likes
"The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution."
Read quote
6 likes