Constitution Quotes · Page 86

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all…

— Thomas Jefferson

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a…

— William J. Clinton

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view,…

— Byron White

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of…

— Edmund Burke

There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder…

— Anthony Trollope

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

— Vladimir Lenin

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions…

— Aristotle

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…

— Samuel Adams

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

— Thomas Jefferson

So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who…

— Vladimir Posner

As I have said repeatedly, if confirmed to the court, I would be part of a team of nine, committed to deciding…

— Brett Kavanaugh

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable…

— Henry David Thoreau

Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has…

— Ramsey Clark

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free…

— Joichi Ito

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

— Steve Scalise

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride…

— Samuel Johnson

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault…

— Brandon Mull

The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

— Chuck Todd

Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of…

— Harrison Schmitt

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs…

— Clarence Thomas

“Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it…

— Orlando Figes

The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to…

— Ron Paul