Us Constitution Quotes

Idleness ruins the constitution

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution?

Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.

I know for a fact that Ted Cruz every day uses two checklists - to guide him through his personal and professional life - and that is the Bible and the U.S. Constitution.

The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship - it guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom...

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.

Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.

The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.

I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our reform policies, of our new constitution.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.