Constitution Quotes · Page 28

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

— Jack Keane

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion. Byron Goines

— Byron Goines

We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.

— Sam Rasoul

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

— William E. Gladstone

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

— Barry Goldwater

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

— David Starkey

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

Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took…

— Markwayne Mullin

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would…

— Alan Dershowitz

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not…

— Edward Kennedy

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior…

— Felix Frankfurter

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained…

— Susan Burton

The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We…

— Hugh Hefner

Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent…

— Antonin Scalia

People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme…

— Rush Limbaugh

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence…

— Ezra Stiles

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for…

— Thomas Jefferson

For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the…

— Jonathan Turley

If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow…

— Daniel Webster

When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our…

— Mike DeWine

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

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

— Mark Twain

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

— Cal Thomas

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of…

— James Clapper

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

— Rudy Giuliani

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

— Ben Sasse

When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand…

— Anonymous

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

— James Madison

There is a Constitutional right of expression through speech any opinion good or bad only reveals those words are unique.

— Denise Clark

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

— Patrick Leahy

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when…

— Robert H. Jackson

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break…

— E. Stanley Jones