Best 592 quotes in «constitution quotes» category

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

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.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

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.

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

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

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 founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

[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.