Constitution Quotes · Page 89

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy…

— Lord Chesterfield

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much…

— Benjamin Rush

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

— Oliver DeMille

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George -…

— William J. Clinton

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending…

— Adrian Cronauer

The framers of the Constitution created impeachment so that the president of the United States could be held accountable for misconduct. Sure,…

— Jessica Tarlov

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down…

— Susan B. Anthony

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that…

— Elena Kagan

The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved…

— Diane S. Sykes

No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no"…

— Edmund A. Opitz

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

— Bill Vaughan

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

— Edmund Burke

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

— John Ciardi

This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We, conservatives, want a particular legal…

— Ann Coulter

What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit…

— J. Reuben Clark

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land

— Lorenzo Snow

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This…

— Woodrow Wilson

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

— Anonymous

“Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.”

— Enock Maregesi

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

— Jack Keane

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under…

— Alexander Hamilton