Constitution River

Famous quotes containing the words constitution and/or river:

“Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)

“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.

There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)