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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
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.
Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.
The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.
It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can't ground its action on local community criteria. Can't accept it.
The strength of the British constitution is supposedly its ability, because it is unwritten in key respects like the incapacity of the prime minister, to adapt to crises with flexibility and urgency.
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.
The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.
Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution
I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.
If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.
Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.
We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
I haven't given up on my country. I believe in the potential. I believe in the Constitution.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.
We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.
I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.
The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.
The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'
One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper.
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The president must have powers defined under the 1973 constitution, nothing more.
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.
