Constitution Quotes · Page 39

The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.

— Max Baucus

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

— Gloria Steinem

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

— John Henry Newman

It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.

— Eduardo Bhatia

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

— Ellery Schempp

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and…

— Molly Ivins

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law…

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we…

— Shinzo Abe

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local…

— James Madison

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid…

— Thomas Jefferson

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship…

— Marianne Williamson

A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether…

— Brett Kavanaugh

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles…

— Daniel Webster

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They…

— William Barr

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.…

— Thomas Paine

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is…

— Frank Zindler

As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as…

— Alexander Hamilton

The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery…

— George Berkeley

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the…

— William O. Douglas

“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion.…

— Franklin T. Lambert

The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,…

— Heber J. Grant

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for…

— Felix Frankfurter

Ultimately, the Supreme Court should be about fairness, not favor; Constitution, not color.

— Brian Mast

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

— Mark Twain

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

— Nat Hentoff

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

— Ruth Benedict

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

— Stephen Colbert

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

— Rudy Giuliani

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of…

— James Clapper

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

— Cal Thomas

There is a Constitutional right of expression through speech any opinion good or bad only reveals those words are unique.

— Denise Clark

The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.

— Patrick Leahy

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when…

— Robert H. Jackson

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

— Ben Sasse

When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand…

— Anonymous

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

— James Madison

Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict…

— Michelle Alexander