Constitution Quotes · Page 2

The Constitution has to be supreme.

— Nawaz Sharif

Nothing is above the Constitution.

— Joao Lourenco

OLS can the trial court rule in flavor.

— Anonymous

“the great Judge rules with justice.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All power is inherent in the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Oh, wise young judge.

— Dodie Smith

I revere the Constitution.

— Brett Kavanaugh

“Judges live with shadows behind them.”

— Jane Gardam

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

— Tammy Bruce

“The judge waved him off, and closed the door.”

— Smith Henderson

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

— Francis Biddle

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

— Jean de la Bruyere

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

— Jacob Zuma

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

— John Engler

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

— Samuel Johnson

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

— Ayn Rand

The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.

— Patrick Leahy

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for…

— Felix Frankfurter

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we…

— Shinzo Abe

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law…

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

— Nat Hentoff

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Ruth Benedict

Ultimately, the Supreme Court should be about fairness, not favor; Constitution, not color.

— Brian Mast

It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in…

— Barack Obama

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's…

— Robert Byrd

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year…

— Francois Hollande

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the…

— Karl Landsteiner

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative…

— Ted Cruz

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable…

— Byron White

He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not…

— William Howard Taft

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It…

— Antonin Scalia

“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy… Too much importance…

— Naomi Wolf

I think frustration unfortunately, reflects a real breakdown in the political parties themselves, which is fascinating because our constitution did not anticipate…

— Martha Minow

The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom…

— Howard Zinn

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the…

— Walter E. Williams

Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not…

— Ron Paul