Constitution Quotes

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

Progressivism is the cancer in America, and it is eating our Constitution. It was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

I am a constitutionalist. I believe in the constitution. I don't believe in altering the constitution.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.