Constitution Quotes · Page 28

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

— Anonymous

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

— Edwin Meese

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

— Mitt Romney

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

— Dianne Feinstein

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion

— Byron Goines

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are…

— Jay Alan Sekulow

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

— Rand Paul

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion…

— Thomas Jefferson

The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. To carry out that mission, we're entrusted with a…

— Christopher A. Wray

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway?…

— Frederick Douglass

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes…

— Robert Bork

Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this…

— Alexander Hamilton

That is the financial disclosures that is what's required by law, that's Donald Trump [done]. It's in the constitution. The president-elect hasn't…

— Jason Chaffetz

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that…

— Noah Feldman

If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by…

— Petrarch

The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to…

— Ron Paul

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did…

— Clarence Thomas

Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately…

— Samuel Adams

To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“[T]he Constitution was built for deliberation, not for speed. The Founding Fathers sought to create a system of checks and balances that…

— David E. Bernstein

Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be…

— Lawrence Lessig

Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While…

— John N. Bahcall

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

— Eric Dezenhall

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.

— Jean Cocteau

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

— William Cowper

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

— Christopher Buckley

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

— Anonymous

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

— Edward Coke

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

— Trey Gowdy

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

— James Madison

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

— Pope Pius X

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a…

— Saul Bellow

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

— Ron Kind

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That…

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to…

— Jeremy Bentham