118 quotes found
“Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus vi...”
“The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of distu...”
“Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and ...”
“I look forward to taking on issues regarding the Constitution, intellectual property, terrorism, and other legal and regulatory reforms.”
“I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.”
“Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.”
“Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut th...”
“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.”
“As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.”
“If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”
“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no ot...”
“Our Constitutions separation of church and state never meant that religion could have nothing to do with the governing of our nation. The Founders simply intended that the United States would not h...”
“Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.”
“We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.”
“In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”
“The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics...”
“They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys. It's worked for over 200 years, and Hell, we're not using i...”
“Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.”
“Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.”
