Quotes About Amendment

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.

Since the time of the Founding Fathers, and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy.

Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

I am a forthright defender of the right to bear arms - which is guaranteed not only by the U.S. Constitution, but by the Constitution of Arizona.

The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

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

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Ogni legge trasgredita troppo spesso è cattiva; spetta al legislatore abrogarla o emendarla, per impedire che il dispregio in cui è caduta quella stolta ordinanza si estenda ad altre leggi più giuste.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Be warned my son, no man is free from error, but the wise and prudent man, When he has fallen into evil courses Does not persist but tries to find amendment It is the stubborn man who is the fool

The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

There may be some rights—"natural," "human," or otherwise—that should also be civil rights. But if we desire to give such rights the protection of the law, our recourse is to a legislature or to the amendment procedures of the Constitution. We must not look to politicians, or sociologists—or the courts—to correct the deficiency.

We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book.

Confessed faults are half mended.