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| Konstitutionen är guiden som jag aldrig kommer överge. | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| 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. | Antonin Scalia (1936-) |
| The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled. | Arthur J. Goldberg (1908-1990) |
| We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) |
| I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag | Craig Washington |
| The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity | Henry Clay (1777-1852) |
| Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. | Hugo Black (1886-1971) |
| "The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you." | Jello Biafra (1958-) |
| From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law. | Leon Jaworski |
| They (the Secessionists) appealed to the Constitution, they appealed to justice, they appealed to fraternity, until the Constitution, justice, and fraternity were no longer listened to in the legislative halls of their country, and then, sir, they pr | Robert Toombs |
| 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 (1722-1803) |
| Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. | Sandra Day O'Conner |
| And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. | Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) |
| The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) |
| 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. | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) |
| We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same | James Bryce (1838-1922) |
| The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements | John Marshall (1755-1835) |
| It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. | Potter Stewart (1915-1985) |
| We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. | William J. Brennan, Jr. |
| The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. | Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) |
| The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag | Craig Washington |
| Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them | Jason Laumark |
| A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| 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 (1751-1836) |
| We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) |
| Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| 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 (1722-1803) |
| If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| 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 | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. | Hugo Black (1886-1971) |
| 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 (1751-1836) |
| A Constitution should be short and obscure | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity | Henry Clay (1777-1852) |
| The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) |
| “A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the Legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute.” | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right . | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| 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 (1751-1836) |
| The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements | John Marshall (1755-1835) |
| 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. | Sam Houston (1793-1863) |
| The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |