Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Founding Fathers

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

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

America started out as an invention society.

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

The very document that protects our liberties more than anything else, the Constitution, was, of course, drafted in total secrecy.

James Madison was the Speaker of the House. But he also wrote many speeches for George Washington. He even wrote some of Washington’s Messages to Congress. Then as the Speaker, he would write the reply to Washington’s message that he had written.

The Constitution was actually published in two languages in 1787: English and German.

We believe, and I think properly, that when the men who met in 1787 to make our Constitution they made the best political document ever made; but, remember, they did so very largely because they were great compromisers.

'Constitutional' is an unashamedly educational podcast from the 'Washington Post.' Sub-titled 'a podcast about the story of America,' it's presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages scholars to explain the fascinating story of how a nation is designed from scratch.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

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.

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

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

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

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.