Constitution Quotes

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Women are part of the constitution.

— Ashraf Ghani

Wise judges are we of each other!

— Cardinal Richelieu

I don't care about the Constitution

— Phil Hare

“1791 -  The Bill of Rights is ratified”

— James Weber

I had the constitution of a missionary.

— Alexandra Fuller

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

— John Adams

Who can judge the judge?

— Kami Garcia

“This judge has a chip on her shoulder the size of the whole goddamned courthouse.”

— Jodi Picoult

You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.

— Udo Di Fabio

“Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!”

— Joseph P. Sekula

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

— Michael Newdow

I want a Supreme Court that doesn't always side with corporate interests.

— Hillary Clinton

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

— Karen Hughes

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

— Oliver Ellsworth

The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court.

— Patrick Leahy

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the…

— William Rawle

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

— Thomas Jefferson

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like…

— Alex Kozinski

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution…

— Joseph Estrada

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary,…

— William H. Seward

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most…

— Charles Brockden Brown

This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have…

— Patrick Leahy

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws,…

— Antonin Scalia

As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think…

— Jay Leno

Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of…

— Sam Brownback

My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but…

— Nat Hentoff

'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we…

— Paul Jacob

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the…

— James Madison

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as…

— Andrew Johnson

“Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings: How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my…

— Joe Biden

“The Constitution became even more acceptable to the public at large after the first Congress, responding to criticism, passed a series of…

— Howard Zinn

The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, "We are endowed by our Creator…

— Newt Gingrich

“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder…

— Anthony Trollope

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a…

— Patrick Cleburne