Constitutional Quotes
488 quotes by 334 authors
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These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at…
— Fouad Ajami
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I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the…
— Gerald R. Ford
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I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them…
— Ronald Reagan
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People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.
— Michael Maloney
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We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to…
— Westbrook Pegler
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The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps,…
— Ron Fournier
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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed…
— Ron Fournier
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
— Edward Gibbon
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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American…
— Al Gore
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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which…
— Stockwell Day
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I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go…
— Stockwell Day
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'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal…
— Paul Feig
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to…
— William Hague
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The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure…
— Stephen Harper
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
— Phillip E. Johnson
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
— Elena Kagan
Who Wrote These Constitutional Quotes
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