Quotes About Constitution

As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, 'No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.' No person, no exceptions.

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

Since 2000, I have proposed changing the Constitution so that our popular vote decides the presidency.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution.

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

Laws that impinge your constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living must not be preposterous.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Certainly I support the Constitution, and I respect people's privacy, but I also think we need to err on the side of protecting us.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

I decided a long time ago that protecting our Second Amendment means doing so across the board, no exceptions.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.