If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird. — Ted Cruz 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
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
The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under… — Potter Stewart 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
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. — Mitt Romney 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
“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
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. — Lenny Bruce 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
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail… — John Amery Copy Share Image
Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
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