Constitution Quotes

If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process.

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

The dead should not rule the living.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

In a democracy government is the God.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

The answer to 1984 is 1776

I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".