Constitution Quotes · Page 42

“The right to suppress everyone that bothers us should rank first in the constitution of the ideal State.”

— Emil M. Cioran

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

— Anthony Kennedy

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

— Al Sharpton

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

— Anthony Lewis

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

— Ari Melber

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if…

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of…

— John Jay Hooker

We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers -…

— Cal Thomas

He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce…

— Judy Woodruff

People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges,…

— Michele Bachmann

I think that there's been a lot of people in Congress that didn't know all the ins and outs of the Constitution.…

— Rick Santelli

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding…

— Dallin H. Oaks

When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces…

— Asha Rangappa

If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself.…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a…

— Andre Michel Lwoff

Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,…

— George Will

“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to…

— Ken Hutcherson

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these…

— Charley Reese

We never fought for the popular vote. There was no economical reason, and there was no reason based off the system of…

— Brad Parscale

Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out…

— John Marshall

“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and…

— Jonathan Edwards

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

— Lee Greenwood

I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald…

— Samantha Bee

I don't judge people based on their religion. But I judge them based on how they respect the French constitution.

— Marine Le Pen

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

— Thomas Jefferson

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

— John Adams

A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great…

— Bob Latta

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn…

— Craig Washington

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch…

— Greta Van Susteren

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on…

— Orrin Hatch

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

— William Blackstone

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to…

— Benjamin Franklin

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

— Timothy Noah