Constitutions Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Constitutions.
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“Rule of law”
“United Nations”
“Social Justice”
“Constitution of the United States”
“Constitution of May 3, 1791, Poland”
“A constitution should be short and obscure.”
“Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran”
“A constitution is made of a spirit, institutions, and a practice.”
“Wikipedia: Constitutions”
“Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories.”
“A constitution, as Solon said, is good for a certain people and for a certain time. It shouldn’t be mummified.”
“The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.”
“The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.”
“I was always for the liberties of the people for putting water to quench fire, or for putting banks to prevent inundation.”
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”
“Now and then, an extraordinary case may turn up, but constitutional law, like other mortal contrivances, has to take some chances, and in the great majority of instances, no doubt, justice will be done.”
“So, while the people are indeed supreme over the written Constitution, the spiritual constitution is supreme over them. The French Revolutionists wrote constitutions too—every drunken writer among them tossed off a constitution. Where are they? All vanished. Why? Because they were not in harmony with the constitution of the universe. The power of the Constitution is not dependent on any Government, but on its inherent rightness and practicability.”
“The Weimar Constitution is not a socialist constitution. But we stand by the principles enshrined in it—the principles of a state based on the rule of law, of equal rights, of social justice. In this historic hour, we German Social Democrats solemnly pledge ourselves to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No Enabling Act gives you the power to destroy ideas that are eternal and indestructible.”
“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none; it is a pure abstraction, an academic exercise made according to some hypothetical ideal, which should be addressed to man in his imaginary dwelling place.
What is a constitution? Is it not merely the solution of the following problem? Given the population, the mores, the religion, the geographic situation, the political circumstances, the wealth, the good and the bad qualities of a particular nation, to find the laws that suit it.”