Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
North Carolina wants its judges to be fair and impartial, and partisan politics has no place on the judges' bench. — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing:… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions]… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other… — William Powell Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Unlike tennis matches, Supreme Court decisions are tiebreaker-free, meaning the lower-court ruling stands without any high-court guidance. — Don Willett Copy Share Image
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which… — Stanley Forman Reed Copy Share Image
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am not putting a check on anyone. I just have to say that India's Constitution has given certain rights and freedom… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
We had a bad court. Got a bad decision, had a court that's been overturned I may be wrong but I think… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The judge, for instance, who signed the warrant for Charlie’s arrest that last time he went into remand is still on the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Just because you've seen 'My Cousin Vinny' doesn't qualify you to be a federal judge. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image