Constitution Quotes - Page 2

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

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.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

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.

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.