Constitution Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image “To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution Life
A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do:… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
