Constitution Quotes

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net

Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.

The Fourth Amendment wasn't written for people with nothing to hide any more than the First Amendment was written for people with nothing to say.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

I look forward to taking on issues regarding the Constitution, intellectual property, terrorism, and other legal and regulatory reforms.

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.