One country, one constitution, one destiny. [ Daniel Webster ]
There is a higher law than the constitution. [ W. H. Seward ]
Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution. [ Goldsmith ]
Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. [ Condorcet ]
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. [ Chalmers ]
Such is the constitution of man that labor may be said to be its own reward. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. [ J. L. Basford ]
Thy wife is a constitution of virtues: she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. [ Congreve ]
Literature is fast becoming all in all to us - our church, our senate, our whole social constitution. [ Carlyle ]
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. [ Franklin ]
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. [ Dryden ]
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe. [ Chesterfield ]
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. [ Thomas Paine ]
I take the official oath today with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters. [ Burke ]
We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]
A nobleness and elevation of mind, together with firmness of constitution, gives lustre and dignity to the aspect, and makes the soul, as it were, shine through the body. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. [ Lord Karnes ]
The courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. [ Addison ]
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inviting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]