Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

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

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

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

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

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

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.

So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: "Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

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.

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.