Constitution Quotes - Page 5

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I'm not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.