If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently. — Suharto Copy Share Image
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land. — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert on the Constitution but I know the Constitution exists for a reason. It exists to protect human beings,… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan,… — Ron Williams Copy Share Image
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular,… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution. — Richard Carlile Copy Share Image
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
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