Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Raila Odinga

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

Thomas Sowell

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,

Steve Scalise

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

If the constitution is adopted, it will be over the objections of the Sunni leadership. To expect that to be able to resolve the insurgency is simply unrealistic.

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.

We need to reform the constitution as fast as possible and have a new election. We have not finished our duty yet. We still need constitutional reform -- that will be a real victory for us.

I still have frustration with the constitution. The president and vice-president should not be so tied on the ticket.

Gore Vidal

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan.

Rush Limbaugh

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

John Walsh

I'm passionate about the Constitution and the rule of law and the issue of fairness and the issue of acceptance. This is a wonderful community. Why would we want to do something that drives a wedge between us?

Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee's inside power brokers from the will of the people.

Lamar S. Smith

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

We still have some hope that we could reach something. If we reach it, fair enough. If we don't, then they have to take responsibility for what happens if this constitution is passed.

Talk to me as a father, ... Just philosophically, what do you think? Not what the Constitution says, what do you feel?

They want to take this to the ultimate extreme. If we go by the history of amendments to the Constitution in this country, it's only ever been done to give more rights to people, not to take rights away. That's why this is particularly heinous.

I've heard of Law Day. May 1 is Law Day and we often talk about the Constitution then.

Boris Yeltsin

No, it's not in the constitution. The constitution says two terms.

Noah Feldman

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.

Lysander Spooner

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.