Constitution Quotes · Page 41

I think that one reasons I like Brett Kavanaugh is he was clearly one that was gonna interpret the Constitution.

— Mike Braun

It is wrong to take away all the rights granted by the Constitution after the hard-fought Independence. It is a betrayal of…

— M. K. Stalin

Our constitutional scheme - the design of our government - is erected to prevent tyranny.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

— Lawrence Lessig

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

— Arnold Kling

Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am…

— Tom DeLay

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

— Alan Dershowitz

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional…

— George Will

The USA is the greatest nation, not because Americans are inherently superior but because its government was founded on principles which seek…

— Rush Limbaugh

“damned good friend. As they neared the Chain Bridge, Gutierrez’s sense of loss was heightened by the knowledge that his colleague would…

— Max Allan Collins

The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our…

— Paul Broun

There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader,…

— John Adams

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

— Markwayne Mullin

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the…

— Jim Webb

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be…

— Patrick Henry

The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the…

— Anonymous

“Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no…

— Barry M. Goldwater

Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art…

— John Frohnmayer

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional…

— B. R. Ambedkar

We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they…

— Arthur Goldberg

“She's not talking to me. She's talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks…

— Sophie Kinsella

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

— Robert Byrd

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

— Jon Stewart

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

— David Hume

[Donald Trump] needs to take action today before he becomes president so he doesn't violate the Constitution.

— Chuck Todd

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your…

— Henry Rollins

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

— Nawaz Sharif

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we…

— Anonymous

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a…

— Michael Bloomberg

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and…

— James K. Polk

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson