Constitution Quotes

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With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution… — James Crawford
It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens… — Rutherford B. Hayes
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. — Trey Gowdy
I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution. — Trey Gowdy
The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition… — Trey Gowdy
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. — Abraham Lincoln
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone… — James Madison
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of… — Benjamin Rush
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right. — James Madison
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. — Daniel Ellsberg
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. — John Henry Newman
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of… — James Madison
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson

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