Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 334 authors

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. — Zach Galifianakis
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The… — Fred Hampton
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work… — Anthony Kennedy
While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as… — Josh Mandel
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and… — Jack Kingston
The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the votes for the… — Jon Stewart
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a… — David Horowitz
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment. — Ken Buck
Itâ€™s unlikely to change â€“ thereâ€™s nothing in King Salmanâ€™s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly… — Elliott Abrams
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee… — William J. Brennan
Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections… — Jacob G. Hornberger
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do… — Benjamin Disraeli
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's… — John Updike
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's… — Orrin Hatch
Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to… — Russell Crowe
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a… — Edward Gibbon
We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have… — William Cohen
There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not… — Robert Byrd
This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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