Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 347 authors

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights — Thomas Jefferson
Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people,… — Chris Christie
...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in… — Larry P. Arnn
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has… — John Kaplan
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high… — Andrew Jackson
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened,… — W. Cleon Skousen
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a… — James Madison
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully… — Chester A. Arthur
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who… — Jean-Paul Marat
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted… — Francois Furet
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised… — Elwyn Brooks White
I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President,… — William E. Jenner
The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of… — John Rarick
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The… — Ruth May Fox
I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance… — Edward Snowden
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years'… — William Banting
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member… — L. Neil Smith
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon… — L. Neil Smith

Who Wrote These Constitutional Quotes

347 authors contributed a total of 488 Constitutional Quotes, led by these top contributors: