Quotes About Constitution

It is my plan to lead the RSC as a member-driven organization which puts forth positions developed through member participation and dialogue consistent with the RSC's mission and the U.S. Constitution.

Trump devotees don't care about shrinking the size and scope of government. They don't care about the Constitution. They're not Republicans, except as a flag of convenience.

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

'Conservative,' to me, means someone that has an appreciation for the Constitution, that has an appreciation for a limited government and has an appreciation of our nation's founding and our history.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

I support the elimination and defunding of all agencies like the Education and Energy Departments because they fall outside of the framework of the Constitution.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of the press. These are enshrined. And yet, freedom of the press has been curtailed.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that, you know.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, Irulan agreed. There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, Paul said.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said.

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.