Quotes About Constitution

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the 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 enterprise of an aspiring prince.

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

The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

In its next issue, the Albany Journal featured a song that began: Behold Columbia's empire rise, On freedom's solid base to stand; Supported by propitious skies, And seal'd by her deliverer's hand.118 In case any reader missed its meaning, newspapers reprinting this song added a footnote stating that the last line referred to Washington's signature on the Constitution.

The people's delegates had ratified Washington as much as they had ratified a constitution.

By the end of 1787, with final results having reached Mount Vernon from three states and favorable reports from many others, Washington exuded optimism about the Constitution. "New England (with the exception of Rhode Island, which seems itself, politically speaking, to be an exception from all that is good) it is believed will chearfully and fully accept it," Washington wrote to Lafayette in early January.

The chief surely knows that his job is to be on the right side of the Constitution, blatherings about the 'wrong side of history' are an appeal to intellectual cowardice. – Edward Whelan

A constitution defines the mindset of the people and the trend of the state; it also designs the impact, for the discipline of its institutions since as a key to all systems, not the arrangement.

Abolish or violate any law, rule, or constitution is the act of disloyalty to the state and its people; it does not fall under the good faith; it is the way of the traitor. Giving legal status such a traitor to any reason is itself a crime.

Democratically, criticize leaders and constitutionally focus on the national affairs, not for personal interests, but the interests of the state; virtually, it brightens and strengthens the journey of national stability and welfare.

Each organ of the human body works, as its nature, and its soul energizes that. Soul rules the entire body accordingly as the constitution of it; otherwise, the body stays as a statue. Similarly, the State becomes stable with all its institutions, as a systematic and constitutional, which vitalize the entire State; otherwise, it stands as empty of a system that proves itself a failed State.