Quotes About Constitutions

Most nations' constitutions enshrine a right to health care. The list includes Japan and Germany, whose new constitutions the United States influenced after defeating them in the Second World War. Today Germans and Japanese live longer and healthier lives than Americans.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

The belief in the innate virtues of constitutions is as baseless as was the belief in the natural superiorities of royal personages.

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art is more difficult to learn? But what art is more important to us?

This article is going to be very egotistical and MacLanesque and maybe somewhat shocking besides, so I strongly advise divers citizens of Butte not to read it. It occurs to me that some of the things I write do not agree with the constitutions of the said citizens - it seems to be bad for their livers - hence this preliminary note of warning. So now if you go right on and read it and it affects your liver unpleasantly, don't blame me.

Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.

Daniel 6:1-15; 7:15-27). I establish that if laws, statutes, codifications, bills, charters, and constitutions are changed, they are changed in my favor, so that I may prosper in the place of my assignment and the land in which I am domiciled (Daniel 6:25-28).

Metternich objected to all such constitutions not merely because they were representative, and hence incompatible with absolutism, but also because they were national, and thus incompatible with the structure of the Austrian Empire. A national constitution, Metternich believed, would be the death of Austria.