I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“The constitution of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations,… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
I certainly would not vote against a particular judge already in office because of a decision in a case. You may not… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
“Mr. President I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
If [Donald Trump] doesn't make sure that all the foreign government payments - and this includes banks and other corporations owned by… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution,… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve… — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The Vermont Supreme Court serves a vital role in protecting our state's Constitution, upholding our laws, ensuring fairness in our systems and… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
…I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool;… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real,… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“His concern was that if there were a few rights specified in the Constitution, future generations may forget that those are just… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image