Our Constitutional Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of…
— Amy Chua
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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
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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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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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...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,…
— John Stuart Mill
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The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements…
— Arthur Goldberg
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Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we…
— Gerry Spence
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Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.
— Newt Gingrich
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The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and…
— Tammy Baldwin
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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work…
— Anthony Kennedy
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I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the…
— Gerald R. Ford
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I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American…
— Al Gore
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A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit…
— Bo Gritz
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Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
— Charles Krauthammer
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I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects…
— Charles B. Rangel
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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in…
— Robert Jackson
Who Wrote These Our Constitutional Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Our Constitutional Quotes as follows: