300 Quotes on Constitution

• I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

  Author: Don Young

• We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

  Author: Ron Wood

• Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

  Author: Diane Wood

• It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

  Author: Diane Wood

• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

  Author: Byron White

• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  Author: William Whewell

• In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

  Author: Robert Welch

• Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• One country, one constitution, one destiny.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

  Author: George Washington

• The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

  Author: George Washington

• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  Author: George Washington

• I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

  Author: Craig Washington

• And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

  Author: Lyman Trumbull

• I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

  Author: Laurence Tribe

• Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

  Author: George Sutherland

• Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

  Author: John Sununu

• As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

  Author: Potter Stewart

• But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

  Author: Lysander Spooner

• I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

  Author: Eliot Spitzer

• As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

  Author: Lorenzo Snow

• The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  Author: L. Smith

• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

  Author: Ed Smith

• It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

  Author: Alfred Smith

• Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

  Author: Horatio Seymour

• There is a higher law than the Constitution.

  Author: William Seward

• I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

  Author: William Seward

• But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

  Author: William Seward

• But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

  Author: William Seward

• But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

  Author: William Seward

• But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

  Author: William Seward

• I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

  Author: William Seward

• If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

  Author: William Seward

• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  Author: William Seward

• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

  Author: Adam Schiff

• If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

  Author: John Reagan

• The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

  Author: John Reagan

• I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

  Author: George Putnam

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

  Author: Colin Powell

• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  Author: James Polk

• Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

  Author: James Polk

• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

  Author: Leonard Peltier

• There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

  Author: Ron Paul

• To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

  Author: Ron Paul

• How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

  Author: Ron Paul

• I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

  Author: Ron Paul

• We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

  Author: Robert Owen

• Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

  Author: Butch Otter

• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Author: Ted Olson

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  Author: Pat Oliphant

• I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

  Author: Barack Obama

• The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

  Author: George Norris

• A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Power's not what the Constitution was about.

  Author: Roy Moore

• The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

  Author: Roy Moore

• The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

  Author: Roy Moore

• The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

  Author: Roy Moore

• The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

  Author: Roy Moore

• And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

  Author: Joe Miller

• My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

  Author: James Meredith

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

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

  Author: Bill McCollum

• Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

  Author: Thurgood Marshall

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  Author: Kamisese Mara

• A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

  Author: Joseph Maistre

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

  Author: Bill Maher

• Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

  Author: James Madison

• The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  Author: James Madison

• The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

  Author: James Madison

• A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

  Author: Zoe Lofgren

• Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

  Author: Carl Levin

• When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

  Author: Bill Lee

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  Author: Barbara Lee

• The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

  Author: Matt Lauer

• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  Author: Karl Landsteiner

• There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

  Author: Emile Lahoud

• The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

  Author: Henry Knox

• That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

  Author: Steve King

• The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

  Author: Mwai Kibaki

• The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

  Author: Ayatollah Khamenei

• The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

  Author: Anthony Kennedy

• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  Author: Fanny Kemble

• If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

  Author: Junius

• The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

  Author: Mother Jones

• Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

  Author: Richard Johnson

• It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

  Author: Andrew Johnson

• I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

  Author: Andrew Johnson

• Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

  Author: Andrew Johnson

• From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

  Author: Leon Jaworski

• The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

  Author: Molly Ivins

• The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

  Author: Karen Hughes

• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  Author: Karen Hughes

• We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

  Author: Charles Hughes

• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  Author: Sam Houston

• Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

  Author: John Hooker

• If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.

  Author: John Hooker

• It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

  Author: John Hooker

• The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

  Author: John Hooker

• The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

  Author: Mike Honda

• So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.

  Author: Robin Hayes

• But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

  Author: John Harlan

• Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

  Author: John Harlan

• The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

  Author: John Harlan

• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

  Author: Thomas Hardy

• It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

  Author: Sean Hannity

• It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

  Author: Learned Hand

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

  Author: Learned Hand

• The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

  Author: Erwin Griswold

• The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

  Author: Lee Greenwood

• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  Author: Harold Greene

• Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

  Author: Kay Granger

• The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  Author: Billy Graham

• The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

  Author: Arthur Goldberg

• The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

  Author: Arthur Goldberg

• While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

  Author: Edward Gibbon

• There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

  Author: Michael Gartner

• The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

  Author: Elton Gallegly

• If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

  Author: Tommy Franks

• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

  Author: Gerald Ford

• I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

  Author: Curt Flood

• At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

  Author: Thomas Erskine

• The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

  Author: John Engler

• I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

  Author: John Engler

• Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

  Author: Eliot Engel

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  Author: Daniel Ellsberg

• The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

  Author: Queen Elizabeth II

• Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

  Author: Charles Edison

• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  Author: Charles Edison

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

  Author: William Douglas

• The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

  Author: William Douglas

• The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

  Author: Byron Dorgan

• This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

  Author: Mike DeWine

• I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

  Author: Tom DeLay

• I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

  Author: Mark Davis

• The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

  Author: David Davis

• The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

  Author: Artur Davis

• Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

  Author: Angela Davis

• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  Author: Samuel Dash

• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

  Author: Adrian Cronauer

• It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

  Author: Adrian Cronauer

• One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

  Author: Adrian Cronauer

• The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

  Author: Herbert Croly

• The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

  Author: Herbert Croly

• Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

  Author: Jerome Corsi

• I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

  Author: Pete Coors

• To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

  Author: Calvin Coolidge

• The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

  Author: John Conyers

• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

  Author: Leonard Cohen

• Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

  Author: George Clymer

• The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

  Author: Henry Clay

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  Author: Ramsey Clark

• The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

  Author: John Ciardi

• If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

  Author: Dennis Chavez

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  Author: Salmon Chase

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  Author: Salmon Chase

• Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

  Author: Robert Casey

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

  Author: Giacomo Casanova

• In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

  Author: Dennis Cardoza

• Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

  Author: Arthur Capper

• I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

  Author: Ben Campbell

• I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

  Author: Peter Camejo

• It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'

  Author: Robert Byrd

• I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  Author: Robert Byrd

• And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

  Author: Robert Byrd

• Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

  Author: Robert Byrd

• For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

  Author: Martin Buren

• None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

  Author: Sam Brownback

• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

  Author: William Brown

• They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

  Author: Preston Brooks

• We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

  Author: William Brennan, Jr.

• To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

  Author: Carol Braun

• We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

  Author: Charles Bowen

• It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

  Author: James Bovard

• Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

  Author: Leonard Boswell

• I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

  Author: Robert Bork

• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

  Author: Robert Bork

• The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

  Author: Robert Bork

• Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

  Author: Robert Bork

• Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

  Author: Emma Bonino

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

  Author: John Boehner

• Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

  Author: John Boehner

• That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

  Author: William Blackstone

• The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

  Author: Harry Blackmun

• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

  Author: Hugo Black

• Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

  Author: Hugo Black

• My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

  Author: Rose Bird

• Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

  Author: Joe Biden

• The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

  Author: Francis Biddle

• First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

  Author: Michael Beschloss

• The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  Author: Pope Benedict XVI

• Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

  Author: Melissa Bean

• I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

  Author: Roscoe Bartlett

• I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

  Author: Antonio Banderas

• Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

  Author: Michael Badnarik

• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

  Author: John Ashcroft

• We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

  Author: John Ashcroft

• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

  Author: Aristotle

• And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

  Author: Sharron Angle

• In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

  Author: John Amery

• The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

• Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

  Author: Aeschines

• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

  Author: Joseph Addison

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  Author: Samuel Adams

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Author: Samuel Adams

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