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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
The Constitution does not demand that you or I buy anything.
— Mike Conaway
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
— Daniel Webster
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It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
— Jan Shipps
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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
We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.
— George W. Bush
The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.
— Anthony Kennedy
Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
— George Washington
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
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
— George Washington
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
— Harlan F. Stone
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 is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin
Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
— Clint Johnson
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
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
— Joschka Fischer
And, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born;
— Jane Austen
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
— Thomas Jefferson
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
— Christopher Hitchens
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
— Abraham Lincoln
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
— Joseph De Maistre
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.
— Gail Carriger
I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".
— A.E. Samaan
I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.
— Bill O'Reilly
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
— Andrew Johnson
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
— Giacomo Casanova
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
— Benjamin Franklin
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
— Katharine Hepburn
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.
— William Rawle
I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,
— Mary Cheney
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18
— Jill Lepore
I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.
— Narendra Modi
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
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
— Abraham Lincoln
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
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[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
— Thurgood Marshall
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
— Michael Newdow
The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
— Alexander Hamilton
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 isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
— Harry Browne
The Constitution is ... the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen
— John Adams
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
— G. Edward Griffin
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 is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
— Pope Theodoros II
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 Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
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
