Constitution Quotes · Page 34

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but…

— Benjamin Franklin

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

— John Adams

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

— Zeno Vendler

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their…

— Walter Lippmann

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

— Herb Kohl

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

— Anthony Kennedy

I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as…

— Mike Huckabee

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best…

— George W. Bush

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do…

— Brigham Young

It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees…

— Marquis de Lafayette

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank…

— James A. Garfield

I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I…

— Gina Miller

The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool;…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the…

— Noah Webster

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly…

— Noah Feldman

Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the…

— David O. McKay

Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States…

— Eric Holder

If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:…

— Antonin Scalia

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other…

— Charles Darwin

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason,…

— Aleister Crowley

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty…

— William J. Brennan

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each…

— Hugo Black

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may…

— Pope Pius IX

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates…

— George Washington

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

— Oliver DeMille

I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that's saying…

— Scott Pruitt

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

Judges are human beings. We have a duty that we focus on and that we take seriously.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

— Al Franken

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the…

— Robert Byrd

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those…

— Angela Davis

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

— David O. McKay

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer…

— Nelson Algren

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

— Orrin Hatch

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

— Romano Prodi

In the Constitution, there is no idea of a political party. It is representatives of every constituency because it is so vibrant…

— Prakash Raj

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

— Jay Inslee