Constitution Quotes

1691 quotes by 806 authors

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by… — Eustace Mullins
Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government. — Andrew Napolitano
We've got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second… — Louie Gohmert
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all… — Charles Spurgeon
I don't care about the Constitution — Phil Hare
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great… — William O. Douglas
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which… — Felix Frankfurter
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they… — Felix Frankfurter
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. — William J. Brennan
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.… — William J. Brennan
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the… — Byron White
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not… — John Jay Hooker
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and… — Charles Evans Hughes
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. — William Howard Taft
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no… — Learned Hand
Letâ€™s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected. — Valery Giscard d'Estaing
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It… — Chris Hedges
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if… — Joseph Story

Who Wrote These Constitution Quotes

806 authors contributed a total of 1,691 Constitution Quotes, led by these top contributors: