Constitution Quotes · Page 84

The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can't ground its action on local community…

— Marine Le Pen

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Algernon Sidney

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of…

— Jill Lepore

“Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of…

— Noam Chomsky

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

— John McCain

While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you…

— George Saunders

As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it…

— James Madison

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

— William Blackstone

I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right…

— Jacob Zuma

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,…

— Lionel Trilling

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned…

— Ken Buck

I don't think people understand - atheists are really a disenfranchised minority in this country. There are six constitutions right now -…

— Michael Newdow

It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human…

— Geoffrey Fieger

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from…

— Samuel Adams

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is…

— William Whewell

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but…

— Samuel Richardson

“Hamilton, [Melancton Smith] said, spoke ‘frequently, very long, and very vehemently,’ and ‘like publius,’ had ‘much to say’ that was ‘not very…

— Pauline Maier

Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence,…

— Mitt Romney

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of…

— Richard Schiff

The Massachusetts constitution was written much later than the other revolutionary state constitutions, and thus it avoids some of the earlier mistakes.…

— Gordon S. Wood