Constitution Quotes · Page 31

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become…

— Rush Limbaugh

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our…

— Juan Guerrero Burciaga

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is…

— D. H. Lawrence

Brandon McCaw and Phil Hellmuth did a presentation based on the Great Debate for the Constitution.

— Brandon McCaw

Maduro has placed himself above the Constitution, but only the Venezuelan people can be above it.

— Juan Guaido

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

— John Cornyn

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

— John Ciardi

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The movement for the Constitution of the United States was originated and carried through principally by four groups of personalty interests which…

— Anonymous

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the…

— Ichiro Ozawa

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted…

— Nick Rahall

[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive…

— Gordon S. Wood

“A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while…

— Aristotle

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of…

— Alberto J. Mora

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up…

— Edmund Burke

We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,…

— Aristotle

If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by…

— Richard Henry Lee

I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but…

— Robert H. Jackson

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They…

— Gore Vidal

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not…

— Rick Santorum

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our…

— Sameh Shoukry

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

— Rufus Choate

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

— Charles Sumner

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Jacob G. Hornberger

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment…

— Elton Gallegly

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily…

— Anonymous

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

— John Redwood

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

— Paul Craig Roberts

I haven't given up on my country. I believe in the potential. I believe in the Constitution.

— Linda Sarsour

When drafting our Constitution, the Founders took great care to ensure our military is above politics, that its leaders were civilians.

— Nancy Mace

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

— Herb Kohl

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

— Neal Stephenson

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people.…

— Mike DeWine

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on…

— Samuel Alito

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

— James K. Polk

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

— Thomas Hardy