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Constitution Quotes
"The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery."
233
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
173
"I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution."
173
"Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms."
151
"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
112
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
82
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
65
"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
59
"The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence."
59
"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."
56
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."
55
"All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary."
55
"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution."
52
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
51
"I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink."
50
"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
49
"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
49
"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."
49
"I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate."
48
"Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world."
48
"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."
48
"The right of election is the very essence of the constitution."
48
"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
47
"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away."
46
"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."
46
"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
46
"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
45
"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."
44
"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law."
44
"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
43
"One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution."
43
"The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62."
43
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
43
"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
43
"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
43
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
43
"I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence."
42
"Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum."
42
"The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation."
42
"While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country."
42
"The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree."
42
"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
42
"The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches."
41
"We have to worry about protecting the Constitution."
41
"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
41
"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
41
"The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters."
41
"The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it."
40
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