Constitution Quotes · Page 61

I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

— Harry S. Truman

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

— Jane Porter

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

— George Washington

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

— Robert Breault

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

— Nat Hentoff

It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else -…

— Amy Coney Barrett

What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution…

— Laura Moser

I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain…

— Mike DeWine

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most…

— William E. Gladstone

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has…

— Anthony Kennedy

Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is…

— Chuck Grassley

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

However, should any Singaporean consistently establish that he or she rejects Singapore or our Constitution or runs Singapore down with a political…

— Pritam Singh

Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of…

— Alex Gibney

As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

"The Constitution" has something called The Emoluments Clause. That's just a fancy, 18th century word for no foreign government payments. And Donald…

— Norman L. Eisen

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is…

— Frank Zindler

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

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

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

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

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

I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

— Maxime Bernier

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

— Antonin Scalia

Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on…

— Tom Fitton

“the Constitution of a country is never completed in one go. Its development is a continuous process. Sidney”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.

— Orrin Hatch

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

— Marvin Kalb

It is important to remember that in the vast majority of cases, judges get it right.

— Suella Braverman

The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That's not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

— Chuck Todd

“The judge does not make the law. It is the people that make the law. It is the duty of a judge…

— Alan Paton

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it…

— Whitfield Diffie

My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.

— Scott Pruitt

“Judge Landis ultimately ruled that a federal judge had no jurisdiction over local antigambling statutes.”

— William Poundstone

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

— Oliver $

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can…

— Jonah Goldberg

Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.

— Neal Katyal

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud,…

— Rand Paul