James Russell Lowell Quotes

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

The Founding Fathers didn’t intend for the lawyers to run this country

The Founding Fathers gladly sacrificed government that could provide speedy, effective, cohesive, and internally consistent policies. They opted for one that had a maximum number of veto points and checks and balances and protections against tyranny by particular officials or tyranny by selfish majorities.

The federal constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.

Our founding fathers created a system of government of men, not of angels.

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

The Constitution was formed for our whole country

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

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

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

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

My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.

The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

The Founding Fathers: A bunch of old white guys who are making it nearly impossible for modern government to pick our doctors, teach our children, correct our diets, and save our money.

Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule by laws.

The reality is that our Founders always predicted that one day there would be a president like Trump, and that's why they designed the system of government the way they designed it.

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 American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

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.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

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.

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.