Constitution Quotes · Page 35

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

— Nelson Mandela

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

— John Dryden

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

— Antonin Scalia

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Joe Lieberman

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

— Barbara Jordan

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

— Lamar S. Smith

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious…

— Francis Schaeffer

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

— Rand Paul

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed…

— Kevin Gutzman

You know, the Constitution - there's nothing like it. But it doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a…

— Donald Trump

When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore…

— Ron Johnson

The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in…

— John Coleman

There's no Democratic and Republican seats or gyms or coffee shops at the Supreme Court. Every American should be able to celebrate…

— Ben Sasse

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and…

— William Wells Brown

For years we have heard of the role the Elders could play in saving the Constitution from total destruction. But how can…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“I have no criticism of the basic concept of irrefutable authority. Properly employed, it is the easiest, the surest, and the proper…

— Rex E. Lee

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,…

— Aristotle

If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by…

— Richard Henry Lee

I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but…

— Robert H. Jackson

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They…

— Gore Vidal

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not…

— Rick Santorum

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of…

— Alberto J. Mora

“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting…

— Saul Alinsky

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

— Alex Kozinski

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the…

— J. G. Holland

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with…

— Thomas Jefferson

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

— Trish Regan

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do…

— Sam Ervin

Test matches to me are the caviar compared to the fast food stuff. Having the ability and the constitution to triumph over…

— Viv Richards

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all…

— Allison Janney

You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution.

— Ken Jeong

Since 2000, I have proposed changing the Constitution so that our popular vote decides the presidency.

— Dick Durbin

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.

— George T. Conway III

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is,…

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

— George Washington

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

— John Marshall Harlan

“The Supreme Court justices are able to decide fewer than 1 percent of all the appeals”

— James Duane

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a…

— Rudy Giuliani