George Washington Quotes about Constitution

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The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

George Washington

People, Constitution

George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.74

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

George Washington

Constitution, Excellent, Ifs

Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.

George Washington

Government, Hands, Constitution

George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.142

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

George Washington

Giving, Constitution, Sanctions

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

George Washington

People, Constitution, Changed

Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

Honesty, Constitution, Affair

George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.16

It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

George Washington

Government, Constitution, Checks

George Washington (1997). “Writings”

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

George Washington

Wish, May, Constitution

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

George Washington

Adoption, Events, Constitution

Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

George Washington

Foundation, Empires, Constitution

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.184

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

George Washington

Government, Foundation, Constitution

George Washington (1858). “The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.257