All FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Quotes about “Constitution”

“In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”
“We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.”
“We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.”
“I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.”
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
“Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.”

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