Constitution Quotes

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Whether you're gay, straight, you can't tell anybody who to love and who to marry. It's unconstitutional and it's morally wrong.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

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

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

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.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

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.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.