Constitution Quotes

1691 quotes by 806 authors

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution.… — Walter Lippmann
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again… — Thomas Jefferson
I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off… — George Carlin
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. — Robert Breault
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love.… — George Eliot
Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from… — Hippocrates
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves. — E L Doctorow
One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality. — Nikki Giovanni
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.… — Arthur Goldberg
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be… — Arthur Goldberg
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former… — Robert E. Lee
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the… — Karl Marx
The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that. — Lee Greenwood
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can… — Sandra Day O'Connor
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming… — William H. Seward
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed… — William H. Seward
Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. — Ruth Benedict
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any. — Wendell Phillips
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about… — Immanuel Kant
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses… — Michelle Malkin

Who Wrote These Constitution Quotes

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