Constitutions Quotes

• Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Learn
  • Reformation

• It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Right
  • Wrong

• The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

  

  Avicenna
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion
  • Medicine

• That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Spirit
  • Laws

• Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Laws
  • Constitutions

• Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Human
  • Constitution
  • Sacred

• The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Wisdom
  • Founded
  • Constitutions

• ... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Survive
  • Sailing
  • Constitutions

• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  

  Nathaniel Chapman
  • Existence
  • Patient
  • Constitutions