Constitution Quotes
1691 quotes by 806 authors
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Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose.…
— Todd Tiahrt
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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
— Asne Seierstad
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For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took…
— David Berlinski
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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,…
— John Stuart Mill
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There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the…
— Carl Jung
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The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution…
— Mother Teresa
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The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about…
— Paul Vixie
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Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain…
— James Bovard
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A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What…
— Jill Lepore
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Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the…
— Joseph Sobran
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I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.
— Joseph Sobran
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What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects…
— Joseph Sobran
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It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their…
— Joseph Sobran
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Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little…
— Joseph Sobran
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Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with…
— Joseph Sobran
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The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those…
— Joseph Sobran
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Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.
— Joseph Sobran
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The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still…
— Hilary Rosen
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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit…
— Nadia Boulanger
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