Quotes and Sayings About Constitution
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The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva -
The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
-- Al Sharpton -
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
-- Andrew Johnson -
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
-- Andrew Johnson -
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
-- Angela Davis -
The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.
-- Angela Merkel -
The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
-- Antonin Scalia -
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
-- Aristotle -
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
-- Aristotle -
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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 Goldberg -
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
-- Arthur Goldberg -
Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
-- B. R. Ambedkar
