Constitution Quotes · Page 10

The portion of a law usually found unconstitutional is the teeth

— Washington Irving

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

— Carl Levin

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

— Bill O'Reilly

Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.

— Barack Obama

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear.

— Donald Trump

That's the problem with precedents. Even the extreme ones tend to get repeated.

— Ari Melber

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

— Warren E. Burger

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

— Francis Biddle

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of…

— Frank Lautenberg

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the…

— Sam Ervin

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring…

— Tariq Ramadan

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

— Joe Biden

“Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a…

— DaShanne Stokes

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda…

— John Cornyn

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

— Dizzy Dean

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested…

— Andrew Jackson

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will…

— Charles Spurgeon

I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe…

— Bryan Stevenson

If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate…

— Anthony Albanese

The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed…

— Karel De Gucht

Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why…

— Kapil Sibal

As I have said repeatedly, if confirmed to the court, I would be part of a team of nine, committed to deciding…

— Brett Kavanaugh

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who…

— Michele Bachmann

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical…

— Thomas Paine

Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you…

— Rush Limbaugh

In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?"…

— Glenn Beck

The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced…

— Anonymous

There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference…

— Maurice Samuel

With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia.…

— Anonymous

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

— Gore Vidal

One day I was just looking at the coins is what brought this up. I saw "In God We Trust" on my…

— Michael Newdow

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

— Samuel Johnson

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

— John Engler

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

— Jacob Zuma

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

— Jean de la Bruyere

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

— Garry Wills

There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

— Michael Foot

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

— Grover Cleveland

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

— Tammy Bruce