Constitution Quotes

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.

The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true

I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much alive, that fight is very much alive.

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.