Constitution Quotes

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

God knows that 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.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.