The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the… — Heinz Fischer Copy Share Image
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We strongly feel that our Constitution must be safeguarded. There should not be any dilution on the core values and principles that… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image