Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The left hates the Constitution. They hate the restrictions of the Constitution on government. so when you come out and you're for… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The new Constitution, however, is brought to us by a Muse, ordained by the authority of the People, and established at the… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his… — Vladimir Posner Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image