I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws;...

It’s a silly law. Not because the Constitution isn’t worth celebrating, but because this is a silly way to go about it. But to call it an infringement of academic freedom is to confuse a...

[The answer of Solon to the question ‘Which is the most perfect popular government?’]That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be...

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government

But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our best interests. And if it has grown into something it shouldn’t be, and...

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and...

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums,...

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States…capable of maintaining the rule of democracy…. Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores…. I am convinced that...

We dispute that. We don’t think that’s the correct reading of our constitution.

The draft constitution is one of the most progressive governing documents in the Muslim world, … in terms of its protection of rights of religious freedom and conscience.

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

The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken....

We should not be hasty regarding the issues and the constitution should not be born crippled, … We are keen to have an early constitution, but the constitution should be completed in all of its...

I fought for McCain-Feingold because I believed it was not just consistent with the Constitution, it was necessary to preserve its basic promise of one person, one vote and stop the corrosive influence of big...

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee’s inside power brokers from the will of the people.

This constitution is an evil sign upon Iraqis. We want to reach a solution, but they want to provoke us so that we pull out.

I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.

Soma kila kitu, hata katiba.

We plan on giving students questions regarding the Constitution [today] they’ll have until the next week to answer them,

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a liberty. Part of citizenship in a free society is the expectation...

I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make...

The answer of Solon on the question, ‘Which is the most perfect popular govemment,’ has never been exceeded by any man since his time, as containing a maxim of political morality, ‘That,’ says he, ‘where...

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution,

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others...

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what...

2. Humanity & Peace – 2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTIONAny act against the constitution,Must be declared to be but void,But atomic acts against humanity,Are the strength to be but tried.[22]- 2The future of any of the...

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble...

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

There’s nothing to suggest that in 60 years, she’s ever thought or written a word about the U.S. Constitution. This is an opportunity squandered.

Efforts are being made to reach a consensus over the draft constitution during the coming hours,

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

The Constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country

On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.In politics we will...

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

People may want to simplify the chain of command and make one person accountable, but under our federal system, … responsibility starts at the local level and works its way up from the bottom. And...

The governor feels that’s a less egregious option than changing the constitution, but he still opposes both ideas.

I am happy about this decision because I want this to be done democratically, even though we support the constitution.

It’s been about ethnicity and political payback, not the constitution.

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go...

In the last few years, various laws protecting farm workers were approved in California, thanks to the UFW. The Times doesn’t make it clear that the constitution was changed in order to include those who...

say ‘No ‘¡ ‘, to the draft constitution which will divide the country and lead to a civil war.