Constitution Quotes · Page 31

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

I don't judge people based on their religion. But I judge them based on how they respect the French constitution.

— Marine Le Pen

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

— Lee Greenwood

I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald…

— Samantha Bee

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

— Al Sharpton

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

— Ari Melber

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

— Anthony Lewis

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.'…

— Hooman Majd

The judiciary wields enormous power but is utterly mysterious to most Americans. People know more about 'American Idol' judges than Supreme Court…

— Don Willett

The framers of the Constitution created impeachment so that the president of the United States could be held accountable for misconduct. Sure,…

— Jessica Tarlov

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between…

— Lysander Spooner

Through the selection of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Damon Leichty, President Trump has already remade the judiciary, moving our country away…

— Mike Braun

“If I have to take police protection in my own country from my own people, then there is something wrong with me,…

— Narendra Dabholkar

By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by…

— John Adams

I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along,…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers…

— Rush Limbaugh

We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just…

— Rand Paul

Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,…

— Thomas Jefferson

He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation…

— Grover Cleveland

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government…

— Alexander Hamilton

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

— Anthony Kennedy

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to…

— Benjamin Franklin

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

— William Blackstone

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

— Timothy Noah

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

— Antonin Scalia

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

— Jan Shipps

Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on…

— Orrin Hatch

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

— John Adams

A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great…

— Bob Latta

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn…

— Craig Washington