Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
332
AUTHOR:
Andrew Johnson (1808–75)
QUOTATION:
Amendments to the Constitution ought to not be too frequently made;… [if] continually tinkered with it would lose all its prestige and dignity, and the old instrument would be lost sight of altogether in a short time.
ATTRIBUTION:
President ANDREW JOHNSON, speech in front of the White House, February 22, 1866.—Andrew Johnson Papers, Library of Congress.
