It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Through the selection of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Damon Leichty, President Trump has already remade the judiciary, moving our country away… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war. — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is… — Thomas Paine 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
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles,… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States,… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause? — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary… — Michael Newdow 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
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image