But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“[T]he Constitution was built for deliberation, not for speed. The Founding Fathers sought to create a system of checks and balances that… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
General irregularities are known in time to remedy themselves. By the constitution of ancient Egypt, the priesthood was continually increasing, till at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. “Ah, this is the constitution,”… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution,… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If the choice is between universal health care or fixing our broken immigration system or upholding a 60-vote filibuster rule that is… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil,… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
The Google guys haven't even found a way to put abortion in the Constitution yet. Give 'em time. Give the Google guys… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so:… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“The Constitution was a reaffirmation of faith in the principles painfully evolved over the centuries by the English-speaking peoples. It enshrined long-standing… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart… — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
These two value systems [islam and U.S constitution] do not clash in any way, and my son is a member of the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“Next to be in one with worshiping God, there is nothing in this world upon which this church should be more united… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image