Constitutional Quotes
488 quotes by 344 authors
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Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy…
— Fred Phelps
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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and…
— Andrew Jackson
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Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at…
— Robert M. Gates
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In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited…
— Martin Van Buren
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Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
— Roger Wicker
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Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal…
— Garet Garrett
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Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities…
— John Engler
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Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
— Erwin Griswold
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
— Caleb Cushing
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the…
— Charles S. Maier
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I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing;…
— Ted Olson
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Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of…
— Johnny Isakson
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Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.
— Peter Hain
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Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.
— Eleanor Smeal
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As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power…
— Mickey Edwards
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We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same…
— Paul Hawken
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Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.
— Mike Royko
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When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their…
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
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In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public…
— Stephen Holmes
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