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![The U.s. Constitution Quotes By Jan Shipps: It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-u-s-constitution-quotes-by-jan-shipps-73997.jpg "The U.s. Constitution Quotes By Jan Shipps: It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that")
It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
— Jan Shipps
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
— Rafael Cruz
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
— Michael Parenti
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
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
— Warren Farrell
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
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.
— Thomas Sherlock
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
— James Madison
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
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
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
— Herbert Spencer
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
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
— Louisa May Alcott
When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
— Paula Poundstone
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti.
— Wayne LaPierre
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
— Benjamin Franklin
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to declare war.
— Marvin Kalb
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
— U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then,
— Gloria Steinem
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
— Pope Pius IX
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
— Bernie Sanders
I had the constitution of a missionary.
— Alexandra Fuller
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
— Carolyn Maloney
[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
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
— Michele Bachmann
That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.
— Craig Ferguson
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
How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be
— Joseph Story
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
— Theodore Roosevelt
The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
— Alexander Hamilton
![The U.s. Constitution Quotes By Thurgood Marshall: [T]he Constitution was a product of its times.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-u-s-constitution-quotes-by-thurgood-marshall-64751.jpg "The U.s. Constitution Quotes By Thurgood Marshall: [T]he Constitution was a product of its times.")
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
— Thurgood Marshall
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
— Jeff Sessions
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
— George Washington
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
— Jonathan Weiner
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
— William O. Douglas
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
— Abraham Lincoln
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
I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.
— Narendra Modi
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
— Michael Newdow
