Constitution Quotes

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

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.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.