Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power. — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Judges are human beings. We have a duty that we focus on and that we take seriously. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the Constitution, there is no idea of a political party. It is representatives of every constituency because it is so vibrant… — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
We need more justices who will uphold the Constitution, follow the rule of law, and protect our Montana way of life. — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“If the court wasn't ruled by emotions, we might as well not have lawyers or judges. Let machines do the work for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on. — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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