The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their… — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution,… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Congress has created and funded a huge peacetime military that has substantial abilities to wage offensive operations, and it has not placed… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image