Who said “Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”?

“There is a higher law than the Constitution.”

“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”

“It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.”

“The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.”

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”

“The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”