Constitution Quotes · Page 66

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested…

— Andrew Jackson

Hillary CLinton wants to expand illegal executive amnesty, which would be really - shred - it would shred our Constitution.

— Donald Trump

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

— Thomas Jefferson

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

— Dizzy Dean

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda…

— John Cornyn

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they…

— Jed S. Rakoff

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other,…

— George Mason

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

— Rick Santelli

In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble…

— Roy H. Williams

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions…

— Steve Stockman

“The Judges cannot make new law by new decisions; they do not assume a power of that kind: they only endeavour to…

— Daniel Hannan

The Army is a big mixing bowl, and we know that we wear one uniform. We identify with one set of Army…

— Mark Esper

Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent.…

— Don Willett

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on…

— Bill McCollum

“Privacy as a fundamental right allows a person to prohibit, regulate, and take other actions against any actual and/or foreseeable intrusions into…

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This…

— Woodrow Wilson

You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy,…

— Edward Snowden

If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified…

— Charles A. Beard

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights…

— Samuel Adams

The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution…

— William H. Pryor, Jr

The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples…

— Jello Biafra

“conclusion was certainly true in peacetime, but buried in the legislation that created FCDA was a separate section, Title III, that granted…

— Garrett M. Graff

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

— Benjamin Cardozo

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what…

— Grover Norquist

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

— Mark Twain

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,…

— Henry Clay

No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could…

— Jon Kyl

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human…

— George Washington

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

— George Carlin

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

— Mitch McConnell

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

— Algernon Sidney

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian…

— Roger Rosenblatt

As members of Congress, we take a solemn oath to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,…

— Ben Ray Lujan

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

— Frank Herbert

Not wanting to suffer criticism, the judiciary has used its power of contempt to stifle criticism.

— Prashant Bhushan

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

— Steve King

We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.

— Bob Menendez

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

— Thomas Jefferson