Constitution Quotes - page 2

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. (Andrew Jackson)
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. View quote
George Sutherland
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. View quote
George Washington
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. View quote
William Blackstone
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. (William Howard Taft)
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The great question is: from which country shall we copy the Constitution? View quote
Lima Barreto
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. View quote
Learned Hand
A Constitution should be short and obscure. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain-that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist. View quote
Lysander Spooner
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.... View quote
Joe Biden
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. View quote
Andrew Johnson
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor. View quote
Andrew Johnson
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. (Karl Marx)
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. View quote
Manuel Puig
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one. View quote
Romano Prodi
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. View quote
Stephen Ambrose