Constitution Quotes

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Duty

• Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Constitution
  • Interfere

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Always
  • Will
  • Constitution

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • First
  • Constitution
  • Class

• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Constitution
  • Empathy

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Know
  • Rejection

• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Writing
  • Court
  • Member

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Power
  • 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.

  

  George Sutherland
  • Constitution
  • Abandoned
  • Provisions

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Constitution
  • Go
  • Goes

• The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

  

  Mwai Kibaki
  • Should
  • Diligence
  • Custodians

• In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Different
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Citizens
  • Habits
  • Legislators

• The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Picture
  • Destroy
  • Union

• The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Two
  • Constitution
  • Taxes

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

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Constitution
  • Slave
  • Inspection

• We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Men
  • Constitution

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