Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things… — Sayed Badreya Copy Share Image
“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.” — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Supreme Court really takes cases with kind of a theme in mind. They get about 10,000 requests… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one;… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of… — Horst Seehofer Copy Share Image
“Because if they’re right about their belief system, there is an ultimate judge anyway, isn’t there? We don’t need human judges.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of the African leaders employ various nefarious means to remain in office far beyond what their constitutions permit. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should… — David Frum Copy Share Image
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
You know what they're doing to your Constitution? They're making a joke out of your Constitution. Love's not in your court room.… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Gilani should be loyal to the country, the Constitution and law and not to Zardari alone. — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image