Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in 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 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.

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

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.

Idleness ruins 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 care about the Constitution

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

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

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

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.

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 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?

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

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

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

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.

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

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

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.

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

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

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.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

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

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred 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 have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

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

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

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.

I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract.

In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it.