Constitution Quotes

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

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.

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.

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the New York Times

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.