Constitution Quotes

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

There's very little proof that Obama or anyone in his administration - particularly Hillary Clinton ...

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of...

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, t...

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing dul...

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clea...

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot mean...

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidan...

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as t...

Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their ho...

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitat...

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Thr...

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutio...

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interest...

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government...

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But th...

As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegianc...

A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for Pre...

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended...

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of L...

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of a...

it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily ...

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and sil...

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people t...

They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was w...

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...

I love my country, not my government.

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American hist...

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness o...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each ar...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove...

It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of go...

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond...

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, domina...

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions,...

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions,...

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefor...

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will ...

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudice...

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fat...

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which ...

The Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It...

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are...

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can sa...

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord...

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into...

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has eit...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their one...

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protec...

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to ...

Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of...

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war ...

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather tha...

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly hal...

The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of opp...

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all...

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4...

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They...

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were ...

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several st...

Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case...

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think m...

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covena...

The dead should not rule the living.

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by ...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if w...

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong...

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be syste...

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equ...

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the supp...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constit...

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeg...

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down...

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of...

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. On...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be...

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all ...

If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, over-taxing, anarchistic, co...

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the enti...