Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
The Constitution is quite straightforward about how to change the Constitution, but it takes a lot. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it. — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
If one examines the American idea of freedom, the individual, free enterprise, their Constitution, their political and economic structures as well as… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family,… — Caroline Wells Healey Dall Copy Share Image
Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion.… — Franklin T. Lambert Copy Share Image
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president,… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
A judge is not a god or a king. He has the last word most of the time, but sometimes, one makes… — Joseph Wapner Copy Share Image
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
To many Americans, saying the United States will never be socialist is rhetorical: Of course it won't - we have a Constitution… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
The court's reputation is affected by what people say only if it seems to have a ring of fairness and authenticity. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
“The right to “universal free medical service … to improve working people’s health” was in fact written into the North Korean constitution.” — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unlike tennis matches, Supreme Court decisions are tiebreaker-free, meaning the lower-court ruling stands without any high-court guidance. — Don Willett Copy Share Image
Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
