Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 334 authors

One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an… — Laurence Tribe
Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are… — Paul Craig Roberts
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not… — W. E. B. Du Bois
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,… — John Stuart Mill
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement. — Herb Kelleher
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. — Joseph Sobran
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. — Joseph Sobran
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little… — Joseph Sobran
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. — Alan Bullock
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are… — Charles Schumer
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. — Abraham Lincoln
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United… — Clinton Rossiter
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the… — Andrew Jackson
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress… — Robert Byrd
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice… — Bernhard Schlink
Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield… — LiliÊ»uokalani
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means… — Carlos P. Romulo
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing. — Ferdinand Mount
The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear,… — Unknown Author

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