Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Constitution Quotes
Constitutional law like other mortal contrivances has to take some chances.
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
But the provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist. And […]
If the thing has been practiced for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
