Constitution Quotes · Page 6

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the…

— John Harvey Kellogg

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have…

— Bill Lee

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his…

— Marianne Williamson

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

— James Madison

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked…

— James Madison

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the…

— Fran Lebowitz

The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential…

— Narendra Modi

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

— John Adams

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea…

— Charley Reese

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle…

— Robert Bork

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.…

— Alexander Hamilton

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession,…

— William Howard Taft

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature…

— George Washington

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

— James Surowiecki

Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's…

— Ice T

I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns…

— Steve Martin

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

— David Starkey

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement…

— Chen Shui-bian

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

— Jeb Bush

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into,…

— Barbara Lee

Since the time of the Founding Fathers, and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at…

— Emma Gonzalez

There are rules and regulations, and we live in a country where the Constitution gives us rights and at the same time…

— Balachandra Menon

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away…

— Barbara Boxer

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould…

— Thomas Jefferson