Constitutional Quotes

488 quotes by 347 authors

The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject… — L. Neil Smith
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human… — Gerrit Smith
I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag… — Kevin Costner
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages. — Coretta Scott King
If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what… — Ron Paul
There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. — Elena Kagan
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the communityâ€™s defence… — Alan Keyes
I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty. — Jean-Claude Juncker
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress. — Walter E. Williams
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except… — Ron Paul
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of… — Ambrose Bierce
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed… — Martin Van Buren
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its… — William James
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception… — Theodore Kaczynski
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within… — Ulysses S. Grant
Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. — David Barton
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause… — Henry Steele Commager
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in… — Tony Benn
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would… — Nick Rahall

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