Top Constitution Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Constitution quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Robert Bork
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution
- Robert Bork
Collection: Constitution
Image of Orrin Hatch
America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but they only regulate in those areas which the Constitution grants it power to regulate.
- Orrin Hatch
Collection: Constitution
Image of Neville Cardus
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
- Neville Cardus
Collection: Constitution
Image of Jimmy Hoffa
When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.
- Jimmy Hoffa
Collection: Constitution
Image of Ellery Schempp
Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
- Ellery Schempp
Collection: Constitution
Image of Zachary Taylor
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
- Zachary Taylor
Collection: Constitution
Image of Harlan F. Stone
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
- Harlan F. Stone
Collection: Constitution
Image of Romano Prodi
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
- Romano Prodi
Collection: Constitution
Image of Alberto Gonzales
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
- Alberto Gonzales
Collection: Constitution
Image of Ashraf Ghani
Women are part of the constitution.
- Ashraf Ghani
Collection: Constitution
Image of Karel De Gucht
The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.
- Karel De Gucht
Collection: Constitution
Image of Mumia Abu-Jamal
If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Collection: Constitution
Image of Joseph Kabila
I cannot interpret the constitution. Only the constitutional courts can interpret the constitution.
- Joseph Kabila
Collection: Constitution
Image of Yanar Mohammed
In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with Sharia. We Iraqis feel it was imposed on us. It wasn't a local thing. Iraqis have led a sort of secular life for almost 50 years.
- Yanar Mohammed
Collection: Constitution
Image of Sam Rasoul
We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans.
- Sam Rasoul
Collection: Constitution
Image of Joseph Sobran
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
- Joseph Sobran
Collection: Constitution
Image of Bill Vaughan
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Constitution
Image of Ezra Taft Benson
Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Collection: Constitution
Image of Barack Obama
Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Constitution
Image of Walter E. Williams
Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.
- Walter E. Williams
Collection: Constitution
Image of Thomas Sowell
The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Constitution
Image of Edward Snowden
There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.
- Edward Snowden
Collection: Constitution
Image of Samantha Bee
I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.
- Samantha Bee
Collection: Constitution
Image of George Washington
The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
- George Washington
Collection: Constitution
Image of Arundhati Roy
Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: Constitution
Image of Thomas Sowell
To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Constitution
Image of Gore Vidal
Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Constitution
Image of Robert Anton Wilson
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Collection: Constitution
Image of Barack Obama
Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Constitution
Image of Robert Breault
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Constitution
Image of Louisa May Alcott
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
- Louisa May Alcott
Collection: Constitution
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Constitution
Image of William O. Douglas
The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
- William O. Douglas
Collection: Constitution
Image of William O. Douglas
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
- William O. Douglas
Collection: Constitution
Image of William E. Gladstone
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
- William E. Gladstone
Collection: Constitution
Image of Billy Graham
The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.
- Billy Graham
Collection: Constitution
Image of Benjamin Franklin
I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Constitution
Image of Lindsey Graham
The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.
- Lindsey Graham
Collection: Constitution
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Constitution
Image of Abraham Lincoln
We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Constitution
Image of James Madison
The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.
- James Madison
Collection: Constitution
Image of Nelson Mandela
We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Constitution
Image of James Madison
Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.
- James Madison
Collection: Constitution
Image of James Madison
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
- James Madison
Collection: Constitution
Image of Thurgood Marshall
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
- Thurgood Marshall
Collection: Constitution