Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend. — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. — Socrates Copy Share Image
So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who… — Vladimir Posner Copy Share Image
Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The… — Thomas Paine 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
“This breadth of constitutional law in barring extralegal legislation is revealing about more than the past. The reader will have to wait… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Its framers… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?"… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice. — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected. — Valery Giscard d'Estaing Copy Share Image
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
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