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Constitution Quotes
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thats all. It doesnt guarantee our rights to charity. - Jesse Ventura Quotes
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. - Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? - Joe Biden Quotes
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation. - Elton Gallegly Quotes
The U. S. Constitution doesnt guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin Quotes
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. - Andrew Jackson Quotes
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. Its not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. - Jesse Ventura Quotes
Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island. - Dick Thornburgh Quotes
Historically, amendments to the Constitution have been utilized as a tool to protect or defend the rights and liberties of American citizens. - Corrine Brown Quotes
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. - William H Seward Quotes
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. - James Madison Quotes
The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters. - George William Norris Quotes
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. - John Ciardi Quotes
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled. - Arthur J Goldberg Quotes
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 Quotes
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country. - Paul Gillmor Quotes
The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owners manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the worlds most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free. - P J Orourke Quotes
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individuals body under stringently limited conditions. - William J Brennan Jr Quotes
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. Hes like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. - Ron Wood Quotes
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. - George Haven Putnam Quotes
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. - Caleb Cushing Quotes
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. - Billy Graham Quotes
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. - Sam Houston Quotes
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. - Dick Thornburgh Quotes
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald R Ford Quotes
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. - Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit. - Nigel Farage Quotes
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. - Dennis Cardoza Quotes
We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens. - Barbara Boxer Quotes
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