Constitution Quotes
On rights, duty, and what founding law leaves unsaid.
These quotes touch on what the Constitution does and doesn't explicitly protect, from the absence of any enumerated right to private conversation to its rejection of any tiered, unequal citizenship. See Constitutional Rights quotes for more on that theme.
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Popular Quotes Topics for You.
A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
Constitutional Quotes
6Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the...
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
Constitutional Amendment Quotes
1The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Related Quotes Topics for You.
Another line frames upholding the Constitution as second only to protecting national security among a president's duties, and some quotes touch on real constitutional debates that remain contested today. Explore Constitutional quotes or Constitutions quotes.
