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

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
– Constitution Quotes by Andrew Johnson

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.
– Constitution Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
– Constitution Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
– Constitution Quotes by Learned Hand

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
– Constitution Quotes by Learned Hand

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
– Constitution Quotes by Tommy Franks

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
– Constitution Quotes by Glenn Beck

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
– Constitution Quotes by Ron Paul

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
– Constitution Quotes by Gerald R. Ford

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
– Constitution Quotes by George Washington

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
– Constitution Quotes by George Washington

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
– Constitution Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
– Constitution Quotes by William O. Douglas

Hosni Mubarak… his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
– Constitution Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
– Constitution Quotes by Stephen Ambrose

Power’s not what the Constitution was about.
– Constitution Quotes by Roy Moore

If the constitution goes, I go.
– Constitution Quotes by Kamisese Mara

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
– Constitution Quotes by John Ciardi

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
– Constitution Quotes by Roy Moore

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
– Constitution Quotes by James Madison

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
– Constitution Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
– Constitution Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
– Constitution Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
– Constitution Quotes by Billy Graham

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
– Constitution Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
– Constitution Quotes by Aristotle

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
– Constitution Quotes by John Adams

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
– Constitution Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
– Constitution Quotes by Will Rogers

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
– Constitution Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
– Constitution Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
– Constitution Quotes by James Madison

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
– Constitution Quotes by James Madison

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
– Constitution Quotes by Andrew Johnson

One country, one constitution, one destiny.
– Constitution Quotes by Daniel Webster

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
– Constitution Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
– Constitution Quotes by Samuel Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
– Constitution Quotes by Samuel Adams

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
– Constitution Quotes by Andrew Jackson

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
– Constitution Quotes by Andrew Jackson

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
– Constitution Quotes by Andrew Jackson

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
– Constitution Quotes by Richard Pryor

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.
– Constitution Quotes by Edward Kennedy

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.
– Constitution Quotes by Leonard Cohen

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
– Constitution Quotes by Dan Quayle

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
– Constitution Quotes by David Wilkerson

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That’s set out in the Constitution.
– Constitution Quotes by Sandra Day O’Connor

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.
– Constitution Quotes by Sandra Day O’Connor

It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
– Constitution Quotes by Sandra Day O’Connor

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.
– Constitution Quotes by Angela Davis

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
– Constitution Quotes by Daniel Webster

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.
– Constitution Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
– Constitution Quotes by Joe Biden

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.
– Constitution Quotes by Elena Kagan

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
– Constitution Quotes by Sam Houston

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
– Constitution Quotes by Thomas Hardy

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
– Constitution Quotes by Wendell Willkie

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
– Constitution Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
– Constitution Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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.
– Constitution Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

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

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
– Constitution Quotes by William O. Douglas