| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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. |
| SUBJECTS: | Constitution of the United States |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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