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Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
— Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge
The Constitution does not demand that you or I buy anything.
— Mike Conaway
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
— Daniel Webster
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It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
— Jan Shipps
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The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
— Michael Parenti
Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights.
— David Chiles
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
— George Washington
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
— Augustus
A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.
— John C. Calhoun
The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.
— Anthony Kennedy
Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan's constitution. He clearly can't read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.
— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
— James Lankford
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
— Warren Farrell
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
— George Washington
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
— William J. Brennan
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
— Chuck Hagel
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
— Joschka Fischer
I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18
— Jill Lepore
I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".
— A.E. Samaan
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
— Thomas Jefferson
I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,
— Mary Cheney
Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
— Clint Johnson
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.
— William Rawle
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
— Katharine Hepburn
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
— Benjamin Franklin
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
— Andrew Johnson
We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
— Karen Hughes
The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
— Giuliano Amato
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
— William E. Gladstone
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.
— Gail Carriger
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
— William Rainey Harper
I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.
— Bill O'Reilly
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
— Michael Newdow
I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.
— Narendra Modi
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
— Whoopi Goldberg
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
— Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
— William O. Douglas
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
— George Washington
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
— Jeff Sessions
I had the constitution of a missionary.
— Alexandra Fuller
The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
— Alexander Hamilton
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
— Theodore Roosevelt
How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be
— Joseph Story
The constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
— Alexander Hamilton
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
— Michele Bachmann
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
— William Branch Giles
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
— Carolyn Maloney
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
— G. Edward Griffin
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
— Christopher Hitchens
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
— Abraham Lincoln
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
— James Madison
The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
— Pope Theodoros II
The Constitution is ... the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen
— John Adams
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
— Aristotle.
The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.
— Stephen Johnson Field
The truth is that anyone ... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.
— Louie Gohmert
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
— Harry Browne
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.
— Chen Shui-bian
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
— Elbridge Gerry
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
