Constitution Quotes - Page 16

• We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

  Kevin Rudd

  Moving, Firsts, Recognition

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Freedom Of Speech, Institutions

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• I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  People, Trying, Minorities

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• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Antonin Scalia

  Thinking, Ideas, Abortion

  "Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution' Theory". www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

  Charlie Sheen

  Heart, Winning, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

  Simon Sinek

  Eye, Government, Doe

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  L. Neil Smith

  Tired, Exercise, Rights

  "I'm Tired (With Apologies to Pearl Bailey and Madeleine Kahn)". Second annual Liberty Round Table Conclave near Estes Park, Colorado, July 2, 1998.

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• I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Honor, Should

  "Sonia Sotomayor: 10 Things You Should Know". 1997 Senate Confirmation Hearing, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2009.

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• All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Responsibility, Together Again

  "Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk ‘Lincoln’ following trailer premiere". uproxx.com. September 13, 2012.

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• But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Cases, Certain

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

  Lysander Spooner

  People, United States, Doe

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

  Lysander Spooner

  Numbers, People, Adoption

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, United States, Different

  Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”

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• Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

  John Sununu

  Marriage, Law, Defining

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• 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Names, Safety

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• Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Literature, Human Life

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Airports, Rights

  "Jesse Ventura No Longer Flies, Thanks To Transportation Security Administration" By Andrea Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

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• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Kentucky, Texas, Poor

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• The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

  J. C. Watts

  Law, Obama Supporters, Accusing Me

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2012.

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• Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Jealous, Purpose, Noble

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• Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

  Allen West

  Successful, Thinking, America

  "Allen West CPAC Speech Closes Conservative Conference". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2011.

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• We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

  Allen West

  Integrity, Believe, Humility

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• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

  John Stuart Mill

  Change, Thinking, Fundamentals

  'Autobiography' (1873) ch. 7

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