Constitution Quotes · Page 34

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or…

— Thomas Jefferson

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.

— Jay Leno

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

— Rexford Tugwell

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they…

— Al Smith

I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

— Matthew McConaughey

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

— Bernie Sanders

I don't deviate one millimetre from the rules that are agreed to in the Constitution.

— Javier Milei

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked…

— Evo Morales

Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you…

— Steven Pacey

I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws…

— Alcee Hastings

I will obviously exercise my freedom of speech because I live in India, not in Saudi Arabia and Iran; freedom of speech…

— Payal Rohatgi

The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond…

— Josh Hawley

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect…

— Jed S. Rakoff

Owning a gun is your constitutional right, but that doesn't mean you should do it. The constitution also gives you the right…

— Guy Code

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of…

— Charles Evans Hughes

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the…

— William C. Bryant

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with…

— Thomas Jefferson

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions…

— Mary Ruwart

This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq,…

— Dennis Kucinich

Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are…

— Bill Maher

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating…

— Jack N. Rakove

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.…

— Ron Paul

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active.…

— George Sand

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

— Charlie Sykes

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is…

— Thomas Jefferson

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath…

— Ted Lieu

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution…

— Thomas Paine

“The judiciary, by its interpretation of the Constitution, plays a significant role in changing the destiny of the nation and which it…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is…

— Arlen Specter

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

— Thomas Carlyle

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country

— George Washington

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class…

— John Marshall Harlan

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

— Finley Peter Dunne

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

— Carolyn Maloney

Be it Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, we aim to uphold the peaceful existence of society in terms with the Constitution of…

— Shatrughan Sinha

Ultimately, you are judged by a jury if you are a lawyer speaking to that jury, and you have to show respect…

— Clay Travis

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction…

— Barbara Jordan

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

— Charles Colson

No matter how superficially fair the judge is, he is still the complete autocrat in the courtroom, and he still comes from…

— David Dellinger