Constitution Quotes
1691 quotes by 837 authors
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I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated…
— Rocky Anderson
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The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a…
— E.W. Jackson
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U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.
— Marvin Kalb
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It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with…
— Norman Dodd
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So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly…
— Ramachandra Guha
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In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United…
— Ernest L. Wilkinson
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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can
— Loretta Swit
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We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted…
— Chuck Woolery
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The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual…
— Barack Obama
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As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of…
— Barack Obama
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If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read…
— George Will
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Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a…
— Mo Rocca
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The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.
— William J. Clinton
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No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I think that [Obama] is a powerful leader. I think he’s a brilliant man. I think that he has an incredible devotion to our constitution,…
— Ashley Judd
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I take my marching orders from the Constitution.
— Ron Paul
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It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.
— Ron Paul
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Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,
— Ron Paul
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The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our…
— Ron Paul
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When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because…
— Ann Coulter
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