America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 -… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I have the privilege of serving others by defending the Constitution and the rule of law. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth… — Bob Latta Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures… The separate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In referendums in 2005, the Dutch and the French electorates rejected the European Constitution, which aimed to turn the E.U. into a… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Russell Vought's extreme views trample on the Constitution and opens the door for corruption at the expense of the American people. — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
The judiciary is the only institution in the country which remains totally unaccountable. There is no institution with disciplinary powers over the… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way,… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth — George Washington Copy Share Image
Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it. — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States? — Michael Farris Copy Share Image
BJP has never done politics on religion, and no one should do it. It is against the spirit of our Constitution. — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?” — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I do not have the luxury of deciding which provisions of the Ohio Constitution to defend. — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution. — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
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