Constitution Quotes - Page 6

• The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Administration, Patriot

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.94

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• I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

  Michael Newdow

  Believe, Government, Atheism

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

  Jean O'Leary

  Believe, Rights, People

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• The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Respect, Character, Rights

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• Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

  Will Rogers

  Labor Day, Congress, Labor

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.168, Rowman & Littlefield

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• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Law, Justice, Political

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• The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Democracy, United States

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.570, Best Books on

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• Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.

  George Washington

  Country, President, Bills

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• Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

  James Madison

  Government, Constitution Of The United States, Charity

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.431

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• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Thinking, Long

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Politics, Study

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• Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

  Bill Bright

  Country, Father, Government

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

  Charles Edison

  Progress, Our Society, Stills

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• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Political, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.88, Fireship Press

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• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Funny, Anchors

  Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857.

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• The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Judging, Judiciary

  Speech, Elmira, N.Y., 3 May 1907

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• It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

  Michael Newdow

  Nice, Suits, Nations

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

  Michael M. Honda

  Tragedy, Quiet, Terrorism

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• Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

  Samuel Adams

  Law, Government, People

  The Advertiser, 1748.

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• The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Facts, Ordination

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life". zenit.org. April 11, 2005.

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• Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

  John Boehner

  Country, Believe, Enough

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• 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

  Slavery, Crime, Amendments

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• Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Birthday, Age, Today

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• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  James K. Polk

  Rights, Majority, Minorities

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

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• Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

  James K. Polk

  Minorities, Shields, Oppression

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

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