Constitution Quotes

I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have to take some measures at some point.

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

As a government lawyer, Samuel Alito wrote that he personally believe very strongly the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion.

Hillary CLinton wants to expand illegal executive amnesty, which would be really - shred - it would shred our Constitution.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.

It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you don't. If you do, it's intense in what it wants of us.

I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.