Constitution Quotes · Page 35

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

— Lysander Spooner

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

— Joseph Stalin

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

— Lyman Beecher

Musharraf has just gone against the constitution and displayed contempt of court and has shown that he has no respect for the…

— Shehbaz Sharif

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

— Jonathan Weiner

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

— Vladimir Lenin

Their lies may fool the judges and jurors of the world, but it doesn't fool the almighty judge up above.

— Sonya Parker

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food?…

— Horst Rechelbacher

“Continued reliance on preemption analysis suppresses judicial attention to the discrimination and equality concerns that should be motivating courts' consideration of subfederal…

— Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The…

— Nawaz Sharif

Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample.…

— Robert Scheer

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation…

— Roxane Gay

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…

— J. Reuben Clark

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more…

— James Madison

Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very…

— John Taylor

I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through…

— Edward Kennedy

“The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here…

— Cormac McCarthy

There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation…

— Wilford Woodruff

There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have…

— Leonard Peltier

Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.…

— Gordon S. Wood

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

— Dahlia Lithwick

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no…

— John Marshall

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

— Walter E. Williams

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed…

— Walter Bagehot

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

— Denis Diderot

“It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.”

— Sonia Sanchez

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

— Steve Scalise

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

— Byron White

The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

— Gavin Newsom

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary,…

— William H. Seward

The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

— Herb Kelleher