Constitution Quotes · Page 23

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The…

— Larry Elder

The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not…

— Elizabeth Grosz

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution…

— William Branch Giles

For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of…

— Horst Seehofer

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which…

— Stanley Forman Reed

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

— John Ashcroft

If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

— Andrew Jackson

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information…

— Thurgood Marshall

I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a…

— Ted Nugent

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It…

— Howard Zinn

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes…

— George T. Conway III

Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government…

— Joseph Sobran

All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution…

— Jeff Cooper

There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of…

— Helen Bosanquet

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'

— Keir Starmer

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

— William Godwin

I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no…

— Antonin Scalia

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

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir,"…

— Plutarch

Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

— Saddam Hussein

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

— Alexander Hamilton