The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will undoubtedly leave millions of Americans dissatisfied about the outcome, conviction or not. What… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.' — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal… — R.B. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image