Constitution Quotes

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

I guess I have a strong constitution.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.

I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.

That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure them out.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution.

There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.