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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
It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
— Jan Shipps
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
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
— Mitch McConnell
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
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
— Bill Moyers
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 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
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
— Katharine Hepburn
The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
— Pope Theodoros II
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 Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
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
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.
— David C. Hardesty Jr.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
— Woodrow Wilson
the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.
— Thom Hartmann
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
— Antonin Scalia
Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.
— Michel Templet
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
— Walter E. Williams
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
— Sam Brownback
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
— Al Sharpton
The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
— Alexander Hamilton
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
— William O. Douglas
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
— Jonathan Weiner
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
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
— Thurgood Marshall
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
— Abraham Lincoln
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
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 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 Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
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
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
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
— G. Edward Griffin
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
— Daniel Webster
When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
— Paula Poundstone
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
— Michael Newdow