Constitution Quotes · Page 78

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

— John Marshall

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more…

— Noam Chomsky

[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not…

— Rick Santorum

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have…

— Lysander Spooner

What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine…

— Leo Tolstoy

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

— Lenny Bruce

I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I did publish a Bill once called "Common Sense" with a new constitution for Europe called the "Commonwealth of Europe," setting it…

— Tony Benn

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the…

— Leonard Boswell

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

— John Boehner

If we are competing in elections, it's because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.

— Jair Bolsonaro

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

— Hannah

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

— Ruth Benedict

The Constitution is clear; appropriations powers sit with the legislature.

— Dean Phillips

Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents…

— Luther Burbank

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,…

— Mark Twain

I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters…

— Jonathan Karl

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We…

— Thomas Paine

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is…

— Woodrow Wilson

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

— Thurgood Marshall