Constitution Quotes · Page 4

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

— Felix Frankfurter

The question is yet before the court.

— Horace

The judges are subject to the law.

— Yoav Gallant

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

— Joseph Brodsky

I guess I have a strong constitution.

— Melanie Lynskey

History is a stern judge.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

If the constitution goes, I go.

— Kamisese Mara

To see the world is to judge the judges.

— Joseph Joubert

Three judges are supposed to be objective, see the fight how it is.

— Al Iaquinta

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

— Franklin Pierce

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

— Joseph Story

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

— Robert Mugabe

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

— Ron Paul

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

— Anonymous

Courts are too distant from the communities they put on trial.

— David Lammy

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

— Dahlia Lithwick

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no…

— John Marshall

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

— Lysander Spooner

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

— Joseph Stalin

Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from…

— Roy Cooper

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

— Jonathan Weiner

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

— Lyman Beecher

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting…

— Henry Rollins

So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should…

— George Will

It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down…

— Mike Huckabee

This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common…

— Giordano Bruno

It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and…

— Eric Holder

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Some say the Constitution has robbed us of a proper land redistribution process. Others would want to look at other clauses. Well,…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to…

— Linda Ellerbee

For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of…

— Horst Seehofer

[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk…

— Edward Snowden

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic…

— Stephen Breyer

But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of…

— Charles Evans Hughes

Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one;…

— John C. Calhoun

Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors…

— Thomas Sowell