Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Votes: 4
Thomas HardyThe Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Votes: 4
Benjamin Franklin[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. Votes: 3
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. Votes: 3
Lamar S. SmithI believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution Votes: 3
Saxby ChamblissThe American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution, Votes: 3
Newt Gingrich[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. Votes: 3
Patrick HenryThe Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. Votes: 3
Bruce CattonThe Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. Votes: 3
Antonin ScaliaThe Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation. Votes: 3
John McCainI support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage. Votes: 3
Dick CheneyThe Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. Votes: 3
John MarshallI've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. Votes: 3
Caroline KennedyMore students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. Votes: 3
Charles BowenPresident Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.' Votes: 3
David MametThe express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. Votes: 3
James MadisonThank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. Votes: 3
James K. PolkHe (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology. Votes: 3
Dizzy DeanOur Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, Votes: 3
Ron PaulHas our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States? Votes: 3
Michael FarrisThe right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution Votes: 3
Robert BorkThe right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. Votes: 3
Robert BorkThe United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office. Votes: 3
Jeb BushObama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole. Votes: 3
Mort SahlThe Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. Votes: 3
Michael ParentiWhenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor Votes: 3
Andrew JohnsonDo you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution? Votes: 3
Arlen SpecterI think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision. Votes: 3
Michael NewdowStop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper! Votes: 3
George W. BushOur Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people. Votes: 3
John Quincy AdamsWe must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself. Votes: 3
Franklin D. RooseveltThe Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. Votes: 3
Theodore RooseveltWhen they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. Votes: 3
Jesse JacksonThe American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government. Votes: 3
Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions Votes: 3
Daniel WebsterDude, this transcends politics. George W. Bush is wiping his ass with the Constitution. Votes: 3
Kenneth EadeNow that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. Votes: 3
Nat HentoffThe tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced. Votes: 3
Gideon RachmanWomen deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. Votes: 3
Carolyn MaloneyWe start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. Votes: 3
William RehnquistWhat I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution. Votes: 3
Richard PryorThe strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. Votes: 3
Thomas A. EdisonBind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonThe Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you. Votes: 3
Anthony KennedyI have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. Votes: 3
Bill MaherI am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it. Votes: 3
Andrew JohnsonWe need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country. Votes: 3
Al SharptonThe court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution. Votes: 3
William O. DouglasMinorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. Votes: 3
James K. PolkThe Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. Votes: 3
John CiardiThe Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. Votes: 3
James MadisonIt is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonFree discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution. Votes: 3
Richard CarlileIf we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. Votes: 3
Robert Green IngersollI would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012. Votes: 3
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution. Votes: 3
Carolyn MaloneyHow easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be Votes: 3
Joseph StoryWe have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. Votes: 3
Rufus ChoateIf there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military. Votes: 3
Harry S. TrumanThe right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. Votes: 3
Erwin GriswoldIf the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. Votes: 3
Walter E. WilliamsIt doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. Votes: 3
Sean HannityThere is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. Votes: 3
Pat RobertsonNo power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution. Votes: 3
James MadisonWe current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. Votes: 3
William J. Brennan, Jr.We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen. Votes: 3
Rush LimbaughWe current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. Votes: 3
William J. BrennanI don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead. Votes: 3
Bill O'ReillyThe Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is. Votes: 3
George WashingtonThe pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can Votes: 3
Loretta SwitThe Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that. Votes: 3
Lee GreenwoodThe Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen. Votes: 3
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodThe Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen. Votes: 3
Rush LimbaughWe Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. Votes: 3
Timothy NoahThe Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. Votes: 3
William O. DouglasSaying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution. Votes: 3
Walter E. WilliamsAmong the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. Votes: 3
George ClymerWhen it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution. Votes: 3
Bill VaughanThe people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people. Votes: 3
Franco DebonoThe Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion. Votes: 3
Byron GoinesWithout allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power! Votes: 3
Chuck BaldwinIt took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. Votes: 3
Mitch McConnellNo person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution. Votes: 3
Michael NewdowJohn Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States. Votes: 3
Ed SabolI want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender. Votes: 3
Ron PaulGod was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country. Votes: 3
Mark TwainI am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution. Votes: 3
Nat HentoffOne day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it's waste paper. Votes: 3
Robert F. WilliamsThe good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it. Votes: 3
Giuliano AmatoThe purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. Votes: 2
James MadisonThe three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 1
David BrinThe fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional. Votes: 1
Chris EdelsonUnder the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. Votes: 0
Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de CondorcetDemocracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. Votes: 0
Indro MontanelliIt was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people. Votes: 0
Gordon S. WoodOur constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. Votes: 0
John Marshall HarlanThe Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion. Votes: 0
Bill O'ReillyThe constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens. Votes: 0
Stanislaw Jerzy LecThe constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government. Votes: 0
Barry GoldwaterWe are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution. Votes: 0
Kevin RuddNo philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerAbsolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution. Votes: 0
David HumeThe core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress. Votes: 0
Edward KennedyOur constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Votes: 0
Gerald R. FordBeing in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian. Votes: 0
Thomas GoodwinOur constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached. Votes: 0
Ellery SchemppIf a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassNo foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. Votes: 0
Hamid KarzaiI always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. Votes: 0
Giacomo CasanovaWe seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnNothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. Votes: 0
Charles SumnerIdeally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome. Votes: 0
John RawlsSuch is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other. Votes: 0
Pope Theodoros IIThe constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other. Votes: 0
Pope Tawadros II of AlexandriaAcknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution. Votes: 0
Roy MooreThere are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertThe constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonTo seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man. Votes: 0
AugustusThe only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWords, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
Harlan F. StoneWe have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.
Romano ProdiIt's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
George EliotIf we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?
Jon StewartNo society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
Thomas JeffersonWhere has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?
Joseph Smith, Jr.Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.
Ruth BenedictOne of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. Votes: 3 Adrian Cronauer
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution. Votes: 3 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. Votes: 1 B. R. Ambedkar
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. Votes: 4 Henry Knox
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. Votes: 1 Herbert Croly
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. Votes: 1 Robert W. Welch, Jr.