Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

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

It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make decisions about their own lives consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

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.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.

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

It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

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

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

I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution

I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

I would consider myself American in the way of what the actual idea that's in the Constitution is, not the way that it's performed: All men are created equal, freedom for all, that's something that I obviously believe in. I don't consider myself American because I'm not sure if those are the values that we actually prioritize as much as we need to, but I consider myself American if you look at the Constitution.

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

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

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.

Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

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

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

Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

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

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.