Constitution Quotes

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A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an… — Henry Adams
Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and… — Robert Bork
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable. — Jonathan Weiner
One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day itâ€™s waste paper. — Robert F. Williams
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer… — Christian Nestell Bovee
If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then also the reason… — Marcus Aurelius
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled… — John F. Kennedy
Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians… — John F. Kennedy
Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other… — John F. Kennedy
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus… — James A. Garfield
The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all.… — James A. Garfield
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where… — Marcus Aurelius
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior,… — Marcus Aurelius
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all… — William C. Bryant
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it… — Charles Caleb Colton
I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled… — William E. Gladstone
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the… — Robert Kennedy
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. — Susan B. Anthony
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison

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