Constitution Quotes

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.

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

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

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.

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

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

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.

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

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

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

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

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

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

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

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

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.

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.

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.

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.

The constitution is very clear as to how and when the president hands over power. He can only hand power over to an elected successor.

The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

If the constitution goes, I go.

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.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

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.

We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

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.

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.

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.

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