The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president,… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
The Constitution is quite straightforward about how to change the Constitution, but it takes a lot. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
What I am saying is that Donald Trump can still get a lot of votes from a lot of conservatives like me,… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“But Hamilton lost the day, Jefferson won, and we have a Bill of Rights built into our Constitution that, as Hamilton feared,… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“The constitution which emerged from the Assembly after six months of debate—it was passed on July 31, 1919, and ratified by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We had a bad court. Got a bad decision, had a court that's been overturned I may be wrong but I think… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am not putting a check on anyone. I just have to say that India's Constitution has given certain rights and freedom… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“The judge, for instance, who signed the warrant for Charlie’s arrest that last time he went into remand is still on the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Just because you've seen 'My Cousin Vinny' doesn't qualify you to be a federal judge. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
