Constitution Quotes

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

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.

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

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

I don't care about the Constitution

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.

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

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

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

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

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

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

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

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

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

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

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

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

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

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

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.

Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'