Constitution Quotes

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun.

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

I have a strong constitution.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

Man is more than constitutions.

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

I cannot interpret the constitution. Only the constitutional courts can interpret the constitution.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.