William H. Seward Quotes

The Constitution is not just a legal argument. It is a set of norms and practices and it’s a political document…

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

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

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

The Constitution is a document that SHOULD be beyond argument.

The Constitution was essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental rights of private property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.

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

The whole point of the Constitution is to limit at some point and in some way popular will.

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.

I have withdrawn from partisan politics.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.

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 layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

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.

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

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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

The federal constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.

What's the Constitution between friends?

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.