Constitution Quotes

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

I love my country, not my government.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.