Constitution Quotes · Page 26

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

— H. L. Mencken

Tell God the truth, but give the judge money.

— Russian Proverb

“We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers.”

— Liz Reinhardt

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

— Theodore Roosevelt

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

— Thomas Chalmers

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

— Ellen Tauscher

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

— Anonymous

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

— George Bernard Shaw

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

— James Buchanan

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or…

— Alexander Hamilton

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a…

— Hozier

The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic…

— Ted Cruz

When Oregon was founded as a state in 1857, its constitution explicitly banned Black people from visiting, living and owning property here.

— Ted Wheeler

I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.

— Matthew Whitaker

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the…

— John Tyler

I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial…

— Samuel Alito

I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their…

— Barack Obama

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I…

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman… That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in…

— Antonin Scalia

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of…

— B. R. Ambedkar

There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in…

— Diana L. Eck

All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let…

— Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and…

— Merle Haggard

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for…

— Carl Sagan

Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word…

— Neal Boortz

[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor…

— James Madison

There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the…

— Mitt Romney

The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

— William H. Seward

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.

— Emil Zatopek

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

— John Adams

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

— George Washington

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

— Joseph Sobran

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

— William H. Seward

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois