Constitution Quotes

"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."
-Thomas Jefferson

"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
-Felix Frankfurter

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
-William Orville Douglas

"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
-Antonin Scalia

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
-Felix Frankfurter

"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."
-Sandra Day O'conner

"And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods."
-Thomas Babington Macaulay

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
-Charles Evans Hughes

"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

"We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions."
-William J. Brennan, Jr.

"The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements."
-Dr. John Marshall

"It is the duty of all those who value the Constitution to state that no one, not even a president, is above the law."
-Arsalan Iftikhar

"We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding."
-Dr. John Marshall

"It's been about ethnicity and political payback, not the constitution."
-Maina Kiai

"There is no implication that we have to celebrate the Constitution, and we are not asked to adopt any point of view."
-Rebecca Brown

"We cannot allow the U.S. Constitution and our rights to become a victim of terrorism."
-Michael Grecco

"This decision is a manifestation of our commitment to the Constitution and social justice."
-Linda Hunter

"The constitution should not just be ink on paper, ... Until such time, we will adhere to it."
-Massoud Barzani

"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
-Rufus Choate

"Don't mess with the Constitution, don't mess with the Bill of Rights and don't mess with Christianity."
-Jim Goodnow

"It's not something to confuse, but something to try and clarify to people that this is something that should be done, not in the constitution but in the revised code."
-Bill Harris

"Each house has to pass the whole law and the same law. This is a case where the Constitution is very clear."
-Alan Morrison

"The prosecutor says he should be executed on the basis of the constitution."
-Ansarullah Mawlavizada

"His record of continued hostility to the law, his continued war on the Constitution."
-Lewis Powell

"He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan."
-Su Chi

"Yes, there is a topic (the Constitution), but what we have to think about is whether we think it is appropriate for the government to select a topic."
-Rebecca Brown

"The European constitution is dead for the Netherlands."
-Bernard Bot