Constitution Quotes · Page 124

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior…

— Felix Frankfurter

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most…

— Bernard Bailyn

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going…

— Paul Bremer

I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.

— Trey Gowdy

Drafting of the constitutions is interesting and the discussions around them revealing in many ways. I take it as a discussion of…

— Tariq Ramadan

We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and…

— Matt Shea

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to…

— Pat Oliphant

Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.

— Joe Sestak

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

— Michel Temer

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to…

— Pam Bondi

Idleness ruins the constitution

— Ovid

I defended our Constitution and I always will.

— Lauren Boebert

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English…

— Karl Marx

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while…

— Aristotle

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can…

— Jonah Goldberg

We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give…

— Donald Trump

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

— E. L. Doctorow

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth

— George Washington

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since…

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both…

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect…

— Jed S. Rakoff