Constitution Quotes · Page 44

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

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Benjamin Franklin

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

— Alexander Hamilton

The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

— Franco Debono

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

— David O. McKay

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

— Rohini Nilekani

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body,…

— John Marshall Harlan

There are many good reasons to fear a nuclear Iran, but also many good reasons to fear the consequences of launching a…

— Doug Bandow

While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true…

— John Roberts

There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the…

— Henry Adams

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president, as a celebrity, is supposed to weigh in in every local issue that…

— Doug Burgum

We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and…

— David Hume

That's why we have appellate judges that are more than one judge because each of us, from our life experiences, will more…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great…

— John Stark

“The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the…

— Rachel Maddow

In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution…

— Ernest L. Wilkinson

The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the…

— Andrew Johnson

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one…

— Abraham Lincoln

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about…

— George W. Bush

“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which…

— Noah Webster

I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.

— Bill O'Reilly

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out…

— Joe Lockhart

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

— Michael Newdow

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

— Richard Cordray

“The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really…

— Ann Coulter

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

— David O. McKay

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

— Angela Davis

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

— Robert Byrd

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

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

— Prakash Raj

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

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

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