Amend Quotes
Words on amending laws, constitutions, and our own faults.
This collection gathers quotes about amending laws, constitutions, and personal faults, from congressional debates over the Constitution to calls to amend our own shortcomings. Several quotes touch on how amendments have shaped rights affecting American Citizens throughout history.
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.
As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process...
No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind...
Conservatives should never be shy in promoting a strong case for individual enterprise. We should acknowledge where the system doesn’t work, and seek to amend it.
Amazingly Quotes
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority...
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
American Citizens Quotes
It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.
Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place.
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians...
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...
It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.
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