Quotes About Constitution

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

Black Lives Matter organizers hold the same values of America's age-old enemies, who have always fought the ideals of our Constitution and our nation. That they have now taken on as their costume a false concern for Black America only adds to their depravity.

The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

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

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

Sharia law is completely incompatible with our constitution!

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the preservation of political liberty threatened by the apparent corruption of the constitution, and the establishment in principle of the existing conditions of liberty.

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders, leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation, to defend the truth and defeat the lies.

There are periods in our country's history when Americans re-examine the essence of our social contract. They have occurred half a dozen times. These periods invariably include debate over the meaning of our "civil bible" -- the Constitution -- because we have relied so much on that document to articulate how we see ourselves as a people and how we see ourselves as a nation.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.