Constitution Quotes

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I know for my family, the only question that we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering… — Michele Bachmann
Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written. — Rush Limbaugh
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over… — Sandra Day O'Connor
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well â€” it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling,… — Walt Whitman
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate.… — Charles Hodge
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either… — Antonin Scalia
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. — Stephen Breyer
Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the… — Sonia Sotomayor
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of… — John Paul Stevens
Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution? — Arlen Specter
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart… — Harry A. Blackmun
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution — Robert Bork
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they… — Heraclitus
Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state? — Christine O'Donnell
I have allowed the president to pick his political appointeesâ€¦But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution. — Rand Paul
I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to… — Rand Paul

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