Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.” — Joseph P. Sekula Copy Share Image
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining… — John Shattuck Copy Share Image
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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