Constitution Quotes · Page 14

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

— Thomas A. Edison

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.

— Anonymous

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

— Michael Beschloss

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!

— George W. Bush

I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.

— Trey Gowdy

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

— Hillary Clinton

Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of…

— Thurgood Marshall

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I would never criticize a judge just because he or she presides in another state, including Alabama.

— Mazie Hirono

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.

— Richard Shelby

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

— William G. Boykin

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

— Potter Stewart

Judiciary must be encouraged to find ways and means to regulate its own affairs - consistent with the spirit of the Constitution.

— Manmohan Singh

The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions -…

— Andrew Napolitano

Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and…

— Matthew Whitaker

While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent,…

— Thomas Woods

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass…

— Patrick Leahy

The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability,…

— James McHenry

If you believe that through putting the judiciary under political control you can make it a better judiciary, you are wrong, and…

— Frans Timmermans

The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary…

— Ron Dellums

Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades…

— Ted Nugent

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very…

— Margaret Thatcher

There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of…

— Helen Bosanquet

This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with…

— Janet Reno

The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you…

— Winona LaDuke

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do…

— Barry Goldwater

“This breadth of constitutional law in barring extralegal legislation is revealing about more than the past. The reader will have to wait…

— Philip Hamburger

“The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Its framers…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should...

— Warren E. Burger

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

— William O. Douglas

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

— William J. Brennan

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

— Stephen Gillers

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

— Lydia Sigourney

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

— Joe Manchin

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

— Finley Peter Dunne