Constitute
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
To make up; to compose; to form.
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
An established law.
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Constitute Quotations
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin Crisp
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Constitute Translations
constitute in Dutch is uitmaken, vormen
constitute in French is constituent, constituez, constituons
constitute in German is einsetzen
constitute in Italian is formare
constitute in Portuguese is constitua
constitute in Spanish is formar, constituir
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