Constitution Quotes · Page 40

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

— James Madison

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which…

— Stanley Forman Reed

Unlike tennis matches, Supreme Court decisions are tiebreaker-free, meaning the lower-court ruling stands without any high-court guidance.

— Don Willett

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.

— Robert Kagan

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

— Wayne LaPierre

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same…

— William H. Seward

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that…

— Aristotle

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential…

— Nina Totenberg

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave…

— Plato

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country…

— Martin Van Buren

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake…

— Marcus Aurelius

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved…

— Caleb Cushing

In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal…

— Edward Kennedy

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other…

— Alan Dershowitz

The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,…

— Anthony Kennedy

The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be…

— Alexander Hamilton

There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office,…

— Robert E. Lee

If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Owing its ratification to the law of a State, it has been contended that the same authority might repeal the law by…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly…

— Patrick Henry

“In framing that great document which Gladstone declared ‘the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain…

— Ezra Taft Benson

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

— Pat Robertson

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

— Richard Allen Epstein

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

— Max Baucus

It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined…

— Bryan Fischer

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

— Kayleigh McEnany

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

— Kapil Sibal

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of…

— Anonymous

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president,…

— Patrick Leahy

A judge is not a god or a king. He has the last word most of the time, but sometimes, one makes…

— Joseph Wapner

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

— Patrick Henry

To many Americans, saying the United States will never be socialist is rhetorical: Of course it won't - we have a Constitution…

— Charlie Kirk

The court's reputation is affected by what people say only if it seems to have a ring of fairness and authenticity.

— Prashant Bhushan

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

— Hamid Karzai

“The right to “universal free medical service … to improve working people’s health” was in fact written into the North Korean constitution.”

— Barbara Demick

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

— Josh Hawley