Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

  • By Anonym

    Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

  • By Anonym

    Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

    Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.

  • By Anonym

    Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

  • By Anonym

    Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

  • By Anonym

    Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

  • By Anonym

    Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

  • By Anonym

    Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.

  • By Anonym

    Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

  • By Anonym

    Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

  • By Anonym

    Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

  • By Anonym

    Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

  • By Anonym

    EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.

  • By Anonym

    Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

  • By Anonym

    Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

  • By Anonym

    even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

  • By Anonym

    Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

  • By Anonym

    Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

    Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

  • By Anonym

    Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

  • By Anonym

    Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

  • By Anonym

    For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

  • By Anonym

    Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

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

  • By Anonym

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

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

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

  • By Anonym

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

  • By Anonym

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

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

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

  • By Anonym

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

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

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

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

    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.

  • By Anonym

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

    • constitution quotes
  • By Anonym

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

  • By Anonym

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