Constitution Quote by Robert Bork

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality…

— Melissa Bean

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

— Tucker Max

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own…

— Aristotle

“The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from…

— Stephen Breyer

The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of…

— Thomas Paine

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

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort…

— Barack Obama

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all,…

— Aristotle

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a…

— Joseph Sobran