Constitution Quotes · Page 27

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is…

— D. H. Lawrence

Brandon McCaw and Phil Hellmuth did a presentation based on the Great Debate for the Constitution.

— Brandon McCaw

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily…

— Anonymous

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment…

— Elton Gallegly

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

— Rufus Choate

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

— Charles Sumner

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our…

— Sameh Shoukry

Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret…

— Tim LaHaye

The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the…

— Marco Rubio

The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading…

— Leonard Read

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned.…

— Ernst Zundel

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most…

— Louis D. Brandeis

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the…

— Ben Stein

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building…

— Albert Hadley

The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges…

— Wendy Long

The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,…

— Anthony Kennedy

“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined…

— Tony Judt

“Judges don’t get to choose their cases. When a case goes to court, the judge assigned to it did not commit the…

— Mark Manson

I understand the politics of the situation, I think that many Republican members of the senate believe that,get out the vote move.…

— Martha Minow

One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you…

— Matt Shea

“As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute…

— Giorgio Agamben

The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It…

— David Boaz

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

— John Redwood

When drafting our Constitution, the Founders took great care to ensure our military is above politics, that its leaders were civilians.

— Nancy Mace

I haven't given up on my country. I believe in the potential. I believe in the Constitution.

— Linda Sarsour

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

— Paul Craig Roberts

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

— Neal Stephenson

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

— Herb Kohl

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

— James K. Polk

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

— Thomas Hardy

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people.…

— Mike DeWine

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on…

— Samuel Alito

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do…

— Sam Ervin

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

— Trish Regan

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

— Rush Limbaugh

Test matches to me are the caviar compared to the fast food stuff. Having the ability and the constitution to triumph over…

— Viv Richards

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

— Alex Kozinski