Constitution Quotes

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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not… — Ayn Rand
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. — George Washington
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of… — Thomas Jefferson
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to… — Barry Goldwater
I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it… — Margaret Thatcher
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is… — Nathaniel Chapman
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of… — Avicenna
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. — William J. Brennan
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values.… — Stephen Covey
Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the… — Victor Davis Hanson
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary… — Alexander Hamilton
My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to… — Patrick Henry
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. — Ramsey Clark
The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of… — Frederick Douglass
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. — Barbara Jordan
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth. — Thurgood Marshall
The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people.… — P.J. O'Rourke

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