Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say we have achieved what we wanted to achieve, but there are also reasons for concern. Not everything turned out exactly as I would have liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and the principles contained therein and in our bill of rights.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

From the point of view of legislation of the Constitution, my mandate has been given by my constituency. So it's only my constituency that can revoke my mandate. So until the next election, nobody is supposed to do anything.

Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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.

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

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

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

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

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

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

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

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 did publish a Bill once called "Common Sense" with a new constitution for Europe called the "Commonwealth of Europe," setting it all out - what it's rights were, how it would work. And I think that that will be where is has to go. But I'm not anti-European, I'm just a democrat, a very committed democrat. I don't see why the hell I should obey a law made by someone I didn't elect and can't remove.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

Idleness ruins the constitution

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

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.

I don't care about the Constitution

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.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

I don't think people understand - atheists are really a disenfranchised minority in this country. There are six constitutions right now - state constitutions - that say things like what South Carolina says that, "No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

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

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.

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

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.