Constitution Quotes · Page 24

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

— Jesse Jackson

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

— Joseph Wapner

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

— Thomas Jefferson

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land

— Lorenzo Snow

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

— Jimmy Hoffa

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

— James Buchanan

“Constitution of the institution of the wash basin of the loose motion !!!!”

— sakhiabbas

I believe Judge Kavanaugh will be a justice whose adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law will be a credit…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar…

— Asne Seierstad

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations,…

— Mike DeWine

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

— James Madison

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in…

— James Madison

...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be…

— Robert E. Lee

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played…

— Chuck Norris

The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices…

— Harry Reid

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…

— Jefferson Davis

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to…

— Laurence Tribe

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population,…

— John C. Calhoun

If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of…

— Plato

[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political…

— Alexander Hamilton

I will not lay down and put this narrow, stubborn agenda ahead of our families, ahead of our Constitution, and ahead of…

— Senator John Kerry

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid…

— Alex Kozinski

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

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

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

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with…

— Edmund Burke

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

I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.…

— John F. Kennedy

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

— Michael Badnarik

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

— Margaret Thatcher

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

— Arundhati Roy

“A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.”

— Magdalen Braden

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

— John Selden

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

— Anonymous

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

— John Ashcroft