Constitution Quotes - Page 8

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.

Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.

It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.