Constitution Quotes

• In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.

  

  Gatewood Galbraith
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Operation

• Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Children
  • Quality
  • Study

• What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Freedom
  • Americans
  • Protection

• A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Age
  • Sacrifice

• 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

• If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Hero
  • Constitution
  • Scene

• 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

• Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

  

  Noah Feldman
  • Identity
  • Constitution
  • Lawyers

• 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

• A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

  

  Tommy Franks
  • World
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• 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

• I am hesitant to say this about Barack Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Constitution
  • Barack Obama
  • Bad Man

• 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

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

  

  Paul Gosar
  • Constitution
  • Greater
  • Lesser

• The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Constitution
  • Framed

• Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

  

  Stephen J. Field
  • Government
  • Foundations
  • Usurpation

• The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Different
  • Goal
  • Unity

• The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Darkness

• What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Advice
  • Independent
  • President

• Muslims who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Acting
  • Helping
  • Crime

• My wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution i.e., the Articles of Confederation to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

  

  George Washington
  • Wish
  • Bottom
  • Radical

• I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  

  William Tyler
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Flags

• The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Eye
  • Company
  • Protect

• ...Nixon's subversion of the consititution consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nixon's subversion
  • Presidental lie
  • Criminal offences

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