A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“Let this constitution go forth from this convention, and from the new state, a model instrument of liberal and enlightened principles.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men. — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from… — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“I believe that the United States government was set up with the help of God, and it is the closest government in… — Gary Hansen Copy Share Image
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field… — Dennis Chavez Copy Share Image
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer, is that human life a person under the constitution.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The first grand federalist design...was that of the Bible, most particularly the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament... Biblical thought is federal (from… — Daniel J. Elazar Copy Share Image
I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
“the new league, however, this structure was promising: it was a constitutional carapace that sheltered” — Neil Hegarty Copy Share Image
Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history. — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a… — Hozier Copy Share Image
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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