Constitution Quotes - Page 12

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

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.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

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.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.

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.

[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept this and accused him rightly of being obsessed with the English constitution.

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make decisions about their own lives consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.