Quotes About Constitution

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

use all means for the discovery of sin, and as it breaks forth to be humbled for it, and be chopping at the root of it with this axe of mortification, and thou shalt see by the blessing of God what a change for the better there will be in the constitution of thy grace. Thou

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

The broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the people—a breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify it—it can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.