Constitution Quotes - Page 19

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

Since 2005, when the French and the Dutch voted "no" on a constitution for Europe, nobody has developed a real project for the EU. And certainly not France. If there were ideas, they came from Wolfgang Schäuble or Joschka Fischer, and these German ideas were downright quashed by France. I want to put an end to that.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified at how the present court misapplies what they designed.

We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.