Top 1200 Us Constitution Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

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

Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

Our constitution must be stronger to take action against any unnatural behavior at work place.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.

I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the Constitution.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

In order to provide for their independence, the Constitution made judges of the superior courts immune from removal except by impeachment.

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

Prayer is a gift from Almighty God that transforms us, whether we bow our heads in solitude, or offer swift and silent prayers in times of trial. Prayer humbles us by reminding us of our place in creation. Prayer strengthens us by reminding us that God loves and cares for each and every soul in His creation. And prayer blesses us by reminding us that there is a divine plan that stands above all human plans.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.

The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine.

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us' and 'them,' it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who is an 'us' and who is a 'them' at any given moment.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which we have sworn to protect and defend.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.

Judiciary must be encouraged to find ways and means to regulate its own affairs - consistent with the spirit of the Constitution.