Constitution Quotes

Constitution Quote of the day

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.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

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

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

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.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

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.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

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.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means

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

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

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

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

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

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.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

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.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

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.