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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. -- George Washington
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. -- Abraham Lincoln
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -- John Adams
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
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. -- Billy Graham
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree. -- Edward Kennedy
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. -- Thomas Hardy
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. -- James Madison
The Constitution doesn't mention rain. -- Joseph Brodsky
I don't care about the Constitution -- Phil Hare
Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship. -- Ron Paul
The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity. -- Billy Graham
There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution. -- Edward Snowden
The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows. -- Stephen Johnson Field
Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction. -- George Washington
The Constitution was made for ordinary people. -- Pat Robertson
Power's not what the Constitution was about. -- Roy Moore
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. -- Abraham Lincoln
There's no debt limit in the Constitution. -- James Surowiecki
A Constitution should be short and obscure. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism. -- Barack Obama
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. -- Eric Holder
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution. -- Michael Newdow
The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62. -- John Engler
There is a higher law than the Constitution. -- William H. Seward
The Constitution is only there to regulate matters. -- Jacob Zuma
The ANC is more important than the Constitution. -- Jacob Zuma
I take my marching orders from the Constitution. -- Ron Paul
The conscience of this nation is the Constitution. -- William O. Douglas
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -- Will Rogers
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. -- George Washington
'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution. -- Phil Karn
The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy. -- Andrew Napolitano
Our Constitution was put together for a free people. -- Butch Otter
No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal! -- Theodore Roosevelt
Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it. -- Gore Vidal
The Constitution is what the judges say it is. -- Charles Evans Hughes
There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution. -- James Buchanan
You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't. -- Rand Paul
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. -- Andrew Johnson
The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue. -- Herbert Hoover
At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution. -- Jefferson Davis
Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution. -- Barack Obama
The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution. -- Thomas Sowell
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. -- Aristotle
I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. -- Joe Manchin
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. -- John Marshall
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. -- Ramsey Clark
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. -- William H. Seward
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive] -- Thurgood Marshall
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. -- James Madison
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. -- Joseph Sobran
I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution -- Saxby Chambliss
The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time. -- Fred Rodell
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. -- Lamar S. Smith
The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law. -- Michael Badnarik
U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a. -- Pamela Geller
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. -- Daniel Webster
The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group. -- William O. Douglas
A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution. -- James Madison
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. -- Calvin Coolidge
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. -- Andrew Jackson
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact. -- Rush Limbaugh
Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God. -- James Madison
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. -- George Washington
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. -- Franklin Pierce
When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too. -- Jimmy Hoffa
The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution. -- Samuel Alito
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I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution. -- Harry Browne
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution. -- Grover Cleveland
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. -- Patrick Henry
The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution, -- Newt Gingrich
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. -- Antonin Scalia
The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation. -- John McCain
I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage. -- Dick Cheney
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. -- John Marshall
We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. -- George W. Bush
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself -- John Boehner
Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers. -- Andrew Jackson
To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead. -- Thomas Sowell
As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer. -- Garry Wills
The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it. -- Jacob F. Roecker
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. -- Bruce Catton
I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution. -- Trey Gowdy
We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President. -- Nat Hentoff
The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore. -- Ellen Tauscher
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner? -- William J. Brennan
He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology. -- Dizzy Dean
Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, -- Ron Paul
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. -- James K. Polk
The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. -- James Madison
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution -- Robert Bork
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. -- Michael Parenti
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. -- Robert Bork
The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office. -- Jeb Bush
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole. -- Mort Sahl
Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States? -- Michael Farris
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.' -- David Mamet
The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution. -- Abhisit Vejjajiva
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law -- Barack Obama
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. -- Charles Bowen
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document. -- Samantha Power
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. -- Carl Levin
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. -- Caroline Kennedy
I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution. -- Paul Ryan
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people -- John Adams

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