Constitution Quotes

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In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom;… — Julia Child
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are… — Howard Zinn
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contractâ€”the Constitutionâ€”made eighty years ago, by men who are now all… — Lysander Spooner
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal… — Glenn Greenwald
You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a… — Robert Henri
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:… — Sigmund Freud
There is no greater power on this earth than story.â€ Will paced the length of the room. â€œPeople think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsenseâ€”words… — Libba Bray
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History — Libba Bray
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these… — Cory Doctorow
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say,… — Henry Rollins
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. — B R Ambedkar
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themâ€¦digest them. Let them go into your… — Charles Spurgeon
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe… — Mahatma Gandhi
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time… — Thomas More
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no… — Learned Hand
To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill… — Sami Al-Arian

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