Constitution Quotes

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Both, Congress

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

Liberty, Second, Importance

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

Happiness, Yourself, Catch

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

Interfere, Safeguard, Liberties

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

Happiness, Yourself, Catch

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

Government, Made, Moral

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

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

Morning, Death, Sleep

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Nature, Ignorance, America

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Aristotle

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

Rich, Needs, Consumer

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

United, Shall, Keeping

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, May, Strange

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Power, War, After

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, Brain, Different

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

Religion, Freedom, Meant

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell

Forward, Writing, Country

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
Charlie Sheen

Heart, Brain, Different

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney

Good, Freedom, Waiting

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.
James Madison

Government, End, Historical

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.
Samuel Adams

Freedom, Country, Against

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul

Single, Why, Vote

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers

Drunks, Protects, Senators

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Vote, Act

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.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Nation

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul

Humble, Win, Year

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, United, Protect

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
Ron Paul

Government, Enemy, Nothing

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney

God, Freedom, Government

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