“The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.”

“[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots”

“As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.”

“The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution.”

“The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.”

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.”