Constitution Quotes

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Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military… — Antonin Scalia
The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberÂties because of… — Diosdado Macapagal
The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are… — James McHenry
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted… — Andrew Jackson
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for… — Sayed Badreya
There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally… — Ezra Taft Benson
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials… — Hugo Black
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a… — Jacob G. Hornberger
It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth. — Jacob G. Hornberger
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where… — Gregory A. Boyd
If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the… — Scott Ritter
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator. — Rudy Giuliani
It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't… — Rudy Giuliani
Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been… — William J. Clinton
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,… — John F. Kennedy
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do… — Benjamin Disraeli
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Idleness ruins the constitution — Unknown Author

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