Constitution Quotes

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I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just… — Ronald Reagan
I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God''… — George W. Bush
I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason… — George W. Bush
The question is - and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer - is that human life a person under the Constitution? And… — Rick Santorum
The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. — John Ciardi
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. — William Blackstone
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating… — William O. Douglas
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! — Frederick Douglass
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good… — Thomas A. Edison
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,… — Learned Hand
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom… — Russell Kirk
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most… — James Madison
As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -… — Jay Leno

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