Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it. — Giuliano Amato Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong -… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide… — Larisa Alexandrovna Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide… — Angus King Copy Share Image
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image