Quotes About Constitution

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

Im 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe its not just a hunting right. Its a right for everyone to carry their weapons.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Placing his hand on the Bible, George began the oath: "I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Then George added something that wasn't a required part of the oath. "So help me God!" he exclaimed as he lifted the Bible and kissed it.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve.

It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary: it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.

It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

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

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. 

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprises of an aspiring prince.

2. As with most of the Bill of Rights, the free speech/press guarantee applies equally to federal and state governments, which includes local governments as well as all branches of each government.

The Constitution of the United States . . . stressed not independence but interdependence, not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all. —Independence Day address, July 4, 1962 (see INTERDEPENDENCE