Constitution Quotes

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The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and… — James Russell Lowell
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. — John Dryden
Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution,… — George Washington
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a… — Edward Gibbon
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution. — William O. Douglas
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian. — Harold Wilson
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each… — Eugene Delacroix
We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have… — William Cohen
I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we… — Tim Kaine
I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In… — Boris Yeltsin
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution — Jalal Talabani
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have… — Quintus Curtius Rufus
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders… — Roger Williams
Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen… — Charlton Heston

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