Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 347 authors

The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is… — Rick Santorum
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers… — William Kristol
I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its… — Lawrence Auster
The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval… — Douglas Alexander
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government… — Tom DeLay
I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should be able to… — George W. Bush
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.â€¦ On natural principles, a treaty, which should… — Alexander Hamilton
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. — Alexander Hamilton
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves… — George Washington
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite… — James Madison
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have… — John Dickinson
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. — Corrine Brown
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is… — John Paul Stevens
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy… — Paul Robeson
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on… — Richard Cobden
The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional… — James Lafferty
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. — Zoe Lofgren

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