Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

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

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 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'.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?

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.

'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.

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

No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth.

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

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

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.