Constitution Quotes

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With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them… — James Madison
The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law. — Michael Badnarik
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the… — Ayn Rand
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter
I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution. — Harry Browne
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too… — Alan Dershowitz
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period… — Charles Evans Hughes
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us… — Antonin Scalia
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. — Joseph Sobran
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,… — Frederick Douglass
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it… — Frederick Douglass
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand… — Frederick Douglass
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information… — Noah Webster
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,… — James Madison

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