Constitution Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall… — Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own… — James Madison Copy Share Image
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among that country’s… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield… — David Davis Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
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