The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate. — Andre Carson Copy Share Image
We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human, they are occasionally motivated by considerations other than an objective… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any… — Ben Nighthorse Campbell Copy Share Image
Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
We Cubans are voting for our new constitution, we're voting for Latin America and the Caribbean. We're also voting for Venezuela, we're… — Miguel Diaz-Canel Copy Share Image
The American people have made clear that they want justices who have proven records of judicial restraint - exactly the kind of… — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner. — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say something about another's religion. Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say anything that… — Jeanine Pirro Copy Share Image
Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Trump v. United States would become, in short order, one of the worst opinions ever issued by the Supreme Court. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country. — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
