Us Constitution Quotes

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

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.

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

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the 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.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.