Constitution Quotes

• When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Said
  • Protect
  • Pieces

• The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

  

  Walter Tevis
  • Reading
  • Teaching
  • Thorough

• Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Opportunity
  • Danger
  • Citizens

• First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Political
  • Constitution
  • Conventions

• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Justice
  • Judging
  • Term

• he council that will write the constitution should be elected, not hand-picked ... The constitution will be illegal if it is written by a council, whether that is chosen by the Americans or by what is called the Governing Council or by anyone else.

  

  Ali al-Sistani
  • Write
  • Constitution
  • Council

• Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

  

  Chad Griffin
  • Decision
  • Protect
  • Discrimination

• The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Government
  • Silence
  • Critical

• When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Humor
  • Created
  • Income

• Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Judging

• Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It is a republic with a spiritual foundation characterized by freedom - freedom for the individual and for his society.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Freedom
  • Foundation
  • Republic

• Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?

  

  Ernest L. Wilkinson
  • Country
  • May
  • Needs

• I share the concerns of many Iraqis about the lack of consensus on the constitution.

  

  Amr Moussa
  • Constitution
  • Share
  • Consensus

• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  

  Nicholas Rodger
  • Complicated
  • Expensive
  • Warships

• I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Government
  • Voice
  • Citizen

• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Justice
  • Poor
  • Lawyer

• The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the Constitution is LEGAL.

  

  Bernard von NotHaus
  • America
  • Government
  • Republican

• Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

  

  Paul Gosar
  • Constitution
  • Greater
  • Lesser

• In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment.

  

  Ernest L. Wilkinson
  • Language
  • Fulfillment
  • Prophet

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

  

  Rick Perry
  • Constitution
  • Principles
  • Enabling

• The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Changed
  • Explicit

• I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people. Actually, Again, America, Become, Change, Constitution, First, General, General Welfare, Hate, Imagine, Make, Nation, Nations, Paragraph, People, Preamble, Prospers, Resources, Says, Us, Very, Welfare, Without

  

  Richard Schiff
  • People
  • Constitution
  • General

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