Constitution Quotes · Page 17

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

— Erica Jong

“In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution,”

— Ben Carson

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

— James Otis

“The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it’s like Pet Sounds.”

— Chuck Klosterman

There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'

— Alan Colmes

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

— Clarence Darrow

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.

— Emil Zatopek

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

— Algernon Sidney

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

— Mitch McConnell

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian…

— Roger Rosenblatt

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,…

— Henry Clay

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human…

— George Washington

No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could…

— Jon Kyl

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

— Mark Twain

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what…

— Grover Norquist

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to…

— Michael Gartner

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including…

— Ronnie Musgrove

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other…

— Arlen Specter

We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this…

— Al Sharpton

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger…

— William E. Gladstone

And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty…

— James Madison

Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get…

— Heber J. Grant

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the…

— John Dewey

I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault…

— Brandon Mull

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are a number of Americans who've been taught that, that the Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The Declaration of…

— Rush Limbaugh

What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same…

— William O. Douglas

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

— George Washington

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

— John Adams

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

— Joseph Sobran

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

— William H. Seward

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

— Ellen Tauscher

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

— Thomas Chalmers

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

— Anonymous

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

— George Bernard Shaw