Top 1200 Us Constitution Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

BJP has never done politics on religion, and no one should do it. It is against the spirit of our Constitution.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

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

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Since 2000, I have proposed changing the Constitution so that our popular vote decides the presidency.

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

I think there's a chance that aliens might just see us as beef cattle, so that's us done. Whether they would inhabit us in that way is pretty fanciful because they'd probably just get from us what they could, and then I just see us as fast food.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.

We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

In the Constitution, there is no idea of a political party. It is representatives of every constituency because it is so vibrant and varied.

If we are competing in elections, it's because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.