Constitution Quotes - Page 7

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe, those who ratified the constitution conceived, that this is not an indefinite government deriving its powers from the general terms prefixed to the specified powers - but, a limited government tied down to the specified powers, which explain and define the general terms.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party.

That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.