Unconstitutional Quotes

52 Unconstitutional quotes by 44 unique authors

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. — Earl Warren
You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA… — Matt Shea
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence,… — Walter E. Williams
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation… — Bob Beauprez
Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional. — Justin Amash
The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly… — Charley Reese
I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional. — Fred Korematsu
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one… — Edward Snowden
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to… — John Cornyn
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it… — Stockwell Day
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge… — James Dobson
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. — Henry A. Kissinger
We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping… — Jon Voight
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because… — George Will
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people… — Karen DeCrow
The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments… — Lucille Roybal-Allard
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine. — Sharron Angle
The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at… — Sharron Angle
To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war… — Frank B. Kellogg
A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of… — Michael Kinsley
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the… — Caleb Cushing
The portion of a law usually found unconstitutional is the teeth — Washington Irving

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