To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief read more

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted read more

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the read more

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you read more

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who read more

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag

The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may read more

The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.