Top 1052 Constitutional Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.

It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional watchdog.

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

[Hillary] Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before.

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community is their most powerful tool.

The BJP has been trampling over democratic and constitutional principles since it came to power at the Centre in 2014.

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'

At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.

On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.

No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that."

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.