Quotes About British Constitution

#1. Absolute monarchy, ... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

David Hume

#2. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.

Adam Smith

#3. Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

#4. Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.

David Cannadine

#5. As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William E. Gladstone

#6. [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

William E. Gladstone

#7. The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Queen Elizabeth II

#8. Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

Neville Cardus

#9. I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me
a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

E. M. Forster

#10. Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

Alexander MacLaren

#11. The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Winston Churchill

#12. When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.

Harold Ramis

#13. The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.

Mardy Grothe

#14. Some of the most revolutionary new ideas come from spotting something old to leave out rather than thinking of something new to put in.

Douglas Adams

#15. If you trust me on anything, don't risk today. You're ready as you'll ever be," I say. "Everyone else is robbed the extra day, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. Long visits don't make for good friends.

J.M. Coetzee

#17. In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

Elizabeth Strout

#18. I'm very unorganized.

Taylor Momsen

#19. You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

Marie Lu

#20. The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

Joseph Sobran