Top 1200 Us Constitution Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

I think that one reasons I like Brett Kavanaugh is he was clearly one that was gonna interpret the Constitution.

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes... Let us indulge in games... Let us be more simple: simple and true in our gestures, in our words, and simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make our own decisions. Christ cannot help us if we do not trust Him; He cannot teach us if we do not serve Him. He will not force us to do what's right, but He will show us the way only when we decide to serve Him. Certainly, for us to serve in His kingdom, Christ requires that we experience a change of thought and attitude.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path. There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.

I unequivocally repeat: marriage in accordance with the Polish Constitution is a union between a man and a woman.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life.

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

There is no sentence in the United States Constitution that says the president's children cannot be indicted.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

God’s perspective on us is remarkable, almost unbelievable. He delights in us and loves us as a caring Father. He’s running toward us, ready to embrace and forgive us. He’s for us in all the pain of life and can sustain us in every challenge. as i learn to see from God’s perspective, my perspective on everything else shifts. i realize that my failures don't disqualify me. i’m aware of the security i already have in God’s grace. i trust that nothing will separate me from the love of God in Christ.

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Our Father in Heaven has promised us peace in times of trial and has provided a way for us to come to Him in our need. He has given us the privilege and power of prayer. He has told us to ‘pray always’ and has promised He will pour out his Spirit upon us.