Famous Quotes & Sayings

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,

Steve Scalise

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

Abraham Lincoln

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Michael Ruppert

Since September 11th we have seen the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th amendments to the Constitution abrogated either in whole or in part. What has been done about it?

She is pressing for a view of the Constitution that is quite cosmopolitan, and she is using an out-of-country venue to make her point.

Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

Barbara Boxer

Let me be very clear: I will never be a rubber-stamp for any President. That would be contrary to the Constitution of the United States.

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Abraham Lincoln

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

Laurent Fabius

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

We dispute that. We don't think that's the correct reading of our constitution.

Noah Feldman

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.

Lysander Spooner

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.

Lysander Spooner

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

Alberto Gonzales

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

Saddam Hussein

Today we accomplished the final amendments of the new constitution and the final version has been presented to the United Nations to print it and to be distributed to the Iraqi people,

Samuel Adams

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Barbara Boxer

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Robert Byrd

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

Vayalar Ravi

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

Asa Hutchinson

I think we should stick to the Constitution,

We still have some hope that we could reach something. If we reach it, fair enough. If we don't, then they have to take responsibility for what happens if this constitution is passed.

We urge all parties there to work together to maintain peace, support the constitution and promote national reconciliation.

Harry Browne

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

David Souter

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

Luke Scott

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.