Quotes About Amendment

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against 'Sabbath Laws', the uses of the 'Bible in School', and pre-eminently against an amendment which shall introduce 'God in the Constitution.

In fundamental respects, the Constitution does not mean what it says. It means what the Supreme Court says it means. Or, more particularly, it means what five Supreme Court justices say it means at any particular time.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

Little said is soon amended.

If God accepts us at all, He accepts us wholeheartedly, and He covers us completely with the spotless robe of righteousness. This robe of divine acceptance does not come in gray, but only in dazzling white, and one either has the robe or not. One is either righteous or wicked. And anyone who is wicked can have that status quickly amended by a trip to the cross.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

The individual today rebels against immutable human nature so that he might refrain from amending his own correctable nature.

The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause. - Padme Amidala - Tory MPs have voted down a bid to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas giants that could save families £600. Despite Brits facing a cost of living crisis, Conservatives rejected a Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech backing a one-off levy on North Sea firms to help struggling Brits. MPs rejected the move by 310 votes to 248, and not one Tory MP backed it.

Better by a long road.

According to the legal historian Akhil Reed Amar, before the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1868, "the Supreme Court never—not once—referred to the 1792 decalogue as 'the' or 'a' bill of rights.