Constitution Quotes · Page 18

But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope…

— Mitt Romney

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

— Joseph Sobran

The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;…

— Joseph Story

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This…

— Ludwig von Mises

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

— James Madison

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of…

— Nawal El Saadawi

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to…

— Lajos Kossuth

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of…

— Dick Thornburgh

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all…

— John Roberts

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

— Sonia Sotomayor

The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as…

— Ted Simon

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding…

— Dallin H. Oaks

I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read…

— Benjamin Carson

The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong…

— Phil Karn

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or…

— Thomas Sherlock

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the…

— Anthony Everitt

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

— George Mason

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is…

— Ludwig von Mises

We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in…

— William Ernest Hocking

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…

— J. Reuben Clark

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any…

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the…

— Huey Newton