Quotes of: Constitutional-amendment Keyword

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

David Mamet

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Mike DeWine

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

George B. McClellan

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Al Smith

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Learned Hand

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Alan Bullock

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Life

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Warren E. Burger

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Anthony Lewis

In my book an erection constitutes personal growth.

The Quotations Book of life and Death

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

Larry Craig

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Stephen Kinzer

[ ?'] That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

Solon

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

Lysander Spooner