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The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
— John Adams
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed ... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
— Algernon Sidney
Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
— Margaret Thatcher
Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.
— Dannel Malloy
The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
— Noah Webster
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
— Thomas Carlyle
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
— Maya Lin
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
— Stephen Breyer
Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.
— Michael S. Greve
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
— Lyman Beecher
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
— Salman Rushdie
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
— Daniel Pipes
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
— Joseph Addison
Strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
— George Washington
There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.
— Woodrow Wilson
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
— Thomas Paine
People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
— Katharine Hepburn
And in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.
— Nicholas Sparks
Man is more than constitutions.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.
— John Wilson
Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.
— Sharon Salzberg
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
— Henry David Thoreau
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I believe education is the great equalizer.
— Dave Heineman