Us Constitution Quotes

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. — Jesse Ventura

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime. — Angela Davis

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

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution. — Roy Moore

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

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. — George W. Bush

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. — Bill Moyers

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson

Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on. — Michel Templet

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate. — David C. Hardesty Jr.

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

the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights. — Thom Hartmann

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution. — Thomas Sowell

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. — Jeff Cooper

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness. — Woodrow Wilson

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. — Walter E. Williams

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. — Cal Thomas

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 Bill of Rights wasn't enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had. — Kenneth Eade

As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means — David Frawley

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men. — Thomas Jefferson

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations. — Herb Kohl

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security. — Jeff Sessions

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

Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly. — Melissa Etheridge

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. — Al Sharpton

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent. — Ron Brackin

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." — Mike DeWine

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