Constitutional Quotes
488 quotes by 334 authors
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The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of…
— Sarah Palin
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If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
— James Madison
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Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting…
— John C. Calhoun
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Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections.
— Ron Paul
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Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?
— Jesse Ventura
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There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and…
— Matt Damon
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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
— Edward Snowden
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Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened…
— Ramsey Clark
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The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.
— Hannah
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In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No,…
— Edward Snowden
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The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it…
— Unknown Author
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My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal…
— Ronald Reagan
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Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on…
— Walter Lippmann
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'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you…
— David Harsanyi
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Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills…
— George Will
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[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike…
— George Will
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There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed…
— Frances Farenthold
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The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as…
— Heber J. Grant
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We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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