Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
325
AUTHOR:
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98)
QUOTATION:
As the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
ATTRIBUTION:
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE, “Kin Beyond Sea,” The North American Review, September–October 1878, p. 185.
