Constitution Quotes · Page 20

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

— Andrew Jackson

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

— Stockwell Day

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

— Abhisit Vejjajiva

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

— William J. Brennan

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

— Thomas Jefferson

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

— David Barton

“Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis…

— Jeremy Paxman

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government.…

— Paul Ryan

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

— Howard Dean

The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. That mission is both dual and simultaneous - it…

— Christopher A. Wray

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.

— Bill O'Reilly

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence…

— Anonymous

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every…

— Susan B. Anthony

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

— David C. Hardesty Jr

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is…

— Francis Bacon

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for…

— Anonymous

I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes.…

— Jon Kyl

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would…

— Doug Bandow

Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on…

— Jon Kyl

We want perfect elections, not just any kind of elections. And it's the electoral commission that organizes elections in the country -…

— Joseph Kabila

And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly…

— Sam Hamill

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…

— James Hutton

That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related…

— Jeff Merkley

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen's Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native…

— William J. Clinton

“We are not the only country that becomes way more progressive or regressive depending on who gets into office. This is the…

— Shellen Lubin

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the…

— Huey Newton

“Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty…

— John Adams

There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders…

— Libba Bray

Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug.

— Ellen Ullman

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

— Fred Rodell

“Your topic is the three branches of the government, right?”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

— Dan Bongino

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

— John Dryden

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.

— Margaret Heckler

Supreme Court justices should not be an extension of the Republican Party.

— Dianne Feinstein

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

— David Mamet