United States Constitution Quotes

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

~ Christopher Hitchens

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

~ Christopher Hitchens

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

~ John Updike

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

~ Christopher Hitchens

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme Court justice need only persuade four other people. If he or she is not internally constrained by the authority of a text, he or she is not constrained.

~ Michael J. Gerson

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

~ Dashanne Stokes

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government’s overreaching power to shake down its subjects.

~ Kenneth Eade

The framers were realists, they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

~ John Eidsmoe

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

~ Byron Goines

United States Constitution Quotes

United States Constitution quote from classy quote