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Our Constitution Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our…
- The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
- The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated…
- [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,…
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- 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…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
- I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction…
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing…
More Our Constitution Quotes
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress… — Glenn Beck
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!' — John Boehner
- And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we… — John Boehner
- Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of… — Robert Bork
- Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. — Robert Byrd
- I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many… — Herman Cain
- We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in… — Bob Dole
- Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of… — Katharine Hepburn
- [E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a… — Benjamin Franklin
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves… — Thomas Jefferson