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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."
152
"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."
145
"I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution."
103
"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
96
"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."
91
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
61
"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."
45
"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."
40
"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
37
"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
37
"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."
37
"The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence."
37
"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."
36
"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
35
"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."
35
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
34
"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution."
34
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."
33
"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."
33
"The right of election is the very essence of the constitution."
32
"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
32
"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."
31
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
31
"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
30
"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."
30
"Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world."
29
"The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62."
29
"The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree."
29
"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."
29
"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."
28
"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
28
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
28
"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."
28
"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."
28
"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."
27
"Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution."
27
"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."
27
"Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so."
27
"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."
26
"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
26
"That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."
26
"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."
26
"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
25
"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."
25
"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
25
"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
24
"When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other."
24
"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
24
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