I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The right to suppress everyone that bothers us should rank first in the constitution of the ideal State.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation -… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they… — Michele Landis Dauber Copy Share Image
The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“US Constitution is unconstitutional.” – Circuit Judges Alfred T. Goodwin and Stephen Reinhardt, Federal Appeals Court, San Francisco, 2002 (overturned) “US Constitution… — Austin Dragon Copy Share Image
So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
For the last 25 years, myself and everybody in UKIP has worked to restore our country's former status as an independent, democratic… — Gerard Batten Copy Share Image
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we're… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Pissed off by the lies, misrepresentations, and outright horseshit, I decided it was time to strike back. It was time to reclaim… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
As prime minister of Iraq, I am required to act in accordance with the Constitution to protect all of the Iraqi people… — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
“The right to “universal free medical service … to improve working people’s health” was in fact written into the North Korean constitution.” — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
A judge is not a god or a king. He has the last word most of the time, but sometimes, one makes… — Joseph Wapner Copy Share Image
The court's reputation is affected by what people say only if it seems to have a ring of fairness and authenticity. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
To many Americans, saying the United States will never be socialist is rhetorical: Of course it won't - we have a Constitution… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it. — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image