A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy. — John Jay Copy Share Image
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable. — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so. — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The dignity of the Constitution should be safeguarded in education, language, culture, authority, economy and administration. — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put… — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“The nation, the Supreme Court has said, has “no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution?… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A New York banker toasted the Supreme Court in 1895: “I give you, gentlemen, the Supreme Court of the United States—guardian of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the… — Stephen Johnson Field Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all. — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
