We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
I've had times in the past where I wanted to give up acting, get my head out of the arts because it… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that,… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
You want a judge who makes objective decisions, and that's why temperament is such an important component of being a judge. You… — Steven Pacey Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion … It does not remain fixed in any unchanging… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit… No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My father would always say Kashmiris have made so much sacrifice to achieve something more, but we have a constitution, special status… — Mehbooba Mufti Copy Share Image
“In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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