Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 334 authors

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years. — Ron Kind
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are… — Christopher Kelk Ingold
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that… — James MacGregor Burns
I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is… — Rand Paul
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan
For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a… — Walter E. Williams
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence,… — Walter E. Williams
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and… — George Santayana
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of… — James Madison
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads. — Lin Yutang
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections… — Thomas DiLorenzo
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights… — Bernie Sanders
People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether… — Brian Sandoval
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by… — Larry Sabato
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are… — Larry Sabato
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. — John Thune
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of… — Fred M. Vinson

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