Constitution Quotes

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

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.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America.

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

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

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.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.

The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.