Our Constitution Quotes
179 Our Constitution quotes by 127 unique authors
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Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I…
— James K. Polk
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As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the…
— Sarah Palin
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Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
— A. V. Dicey
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Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept…
— Alan Keyes
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One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.…
— William J. Brennan
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I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
— Cal Thomas
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The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in…
— Bryan Fischer
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
— Ted Olson
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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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The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was…
— Walter E. Williams
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As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in…
— Todd Tiahrt
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Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose.…
— Todd Tiahrt
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The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution…
— Mother Teresa
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...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by…
— Robert E. Lee
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It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make…
— Geoffrey Fieger
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Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is…
— Charley Reese
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
— Ramsey Clark
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Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
— Thurgood Marshall
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I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
— George Washington
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With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of…
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Our Constitution Quotes
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