Constitution Quotes

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

Bill Clinton
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

George Washington
- Duty
- Majority
- Command

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

Neville Cardus
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
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

William J. Brennan, Jr.
- Justice
- Constitution
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
For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to take back America from a Commander-in-Chief that is incapable of understanding the sacrifices that have been made for the values that have made America great.

Ryan Zinke
That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
- Law
- Rule
- Intellect