Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 347 authors

If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would… — Alexander Hamilton
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full… — Alexander Hamilton
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms… — Alexander Hamilton
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would… — Alexander Hamilton
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… — Alexander Hamilton
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect… — James Madison
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to… — Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right… — William Hazlitt
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them… — Alexander Hamilton
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived… — William J. Brennan
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own… — Thomas Jefferson
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over… — James Madison
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the… — James Madison
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. — Siraj Wahhaj
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to… — Walter Bagehot
I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two… — Muhammad Ali
The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I… — Stephen Colbert

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