Constitution Quotes · Page 33

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

— John Rawls

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

— L. Neil Smith

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

— William Matthews

“The Supreme Court overruled their position unanimously, noting that the Clean Air Act’s standards are absolute and not subject to cost-benefit analysis.”

— Jane Mayer

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

— Walter Cronkite

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a…

— Anne Applebaum

You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps…

— Richard J. Maybury

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my…

— Abraham Lincoln

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges…

— Joseph Story

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United…

— James Madison

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were…

— Danny K. Davis

Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes…

— Nina Totenberg

The American people have made clear that they want justices who have proven records of judicial restraint - exactly the kind of…

— Wendy Long

We Cubans are voting for our new constitution, we're voting for Latin America and the Caribbean. We're also voting for Venezuela, we're…

— Miguel Diaz-Canel

I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to…

— John Yoo

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign…

— Walter E. Williams

“The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will…

— Woodrow Wilson

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the…

— Franklin Pierce

The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other…

— Laura Schlessinger

When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to…

— David Petraeus

We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who…

— Mark Durie

“The people’s right to alter or abolish their form of government was, to the American revolutionaries, supposedly absolute. Yet, strangely, neither the…

— Garrett Epps

The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

— Lindsey Graham

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms…

— James Madison

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

— Joseph Smith, Jr

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

— Bruce Fein

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

— Steven Weinberg

The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of…

— Paul A. Freund

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.

— Rush Limbaugh

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.

— Antonin Scalia

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

— Bill Vaughan

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.

— Wendy Long

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

— David Stras

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a…

— Jose Mujica

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

— John Cornyn

Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll.

— Steve Bannon