Constitution Quotes · Page 13

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

— Antonin Scalia

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

— Rand Paul

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

— Andrew Johnson

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

— Jerome Frank

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

— Brett Kavanaugh

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

— Horatio Seymour

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

— Louisa May Alcott

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

— Dianne Feinstein

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion

— Byron Goines

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

— Mitt Romney

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

— Anthony Kennedy

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

— Don Willett

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes…

— Simon Sinek

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

— Christopher Buckley

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to…

— John C. Calhoun

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with…

— Ronald Reagan

Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote…

— Chris Christie

Ours is a system of checks and balances, and in times of great consequence, duty falls on Congress and the states to…

— Dean Phillips

In our Constitution, our bedrock principle, you know - indeed, what the nation was founded on - is an idea of freedom…

— Neal Katyal

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative…

— Learned Hand

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for…

— Al Sharpton

I have talked to Barack Obama about Star Wars recently, in the Oval Office, and he is definitely a fan. Article 2,…

— Cass Sunstein

The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty…

— James Madison

The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by…

— James Madison

Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to…

— Tammy Baldwin

I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon…

— John Hancock

It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to…

— James Madison

“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one…

— Noam Chomsky

Implementing parts of European constitution and leaving out others - without knowing where we're going - isn't an option. That would be…

— Angela Merkel

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

— Anonymous

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.

— Emil Zatopek

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

— William H. Seward

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

— Joseph Sobran

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

— John Adams

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

— George Washington

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

— Anonymous