Constitution Quotes

This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.

The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.

The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution.

I take my marching orders from the Constitution.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.