Constitution Quotes

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

[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.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.