The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
Ferdinand Lassalle

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you”
Abraham Lincoln

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

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
Lynn Westmoreland

Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
Alan Bullock

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon

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

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
Antonin Scalia

We didn’t pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
John Engler

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
Paul Bremer

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Robert Mugabe

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Corrine Brown

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
George McClellan

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn’t matter.
Elena Kagan

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

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

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
Ron Kind

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge
Robert Bork

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
Thurgood Marshall

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

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
Warren E. Burger

The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.
Hugo Black

That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of the man in the office.
Harry S Truman

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton

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

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.
Horatio Seymour

We don’t need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.
Bill Clinton

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We’re all entitled to have the best we can.
Loretta Swit

This election is a critical step in that overall plan – transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.
John M. McHugh

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
Archibald Cox

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.
Carl Levin

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
Robert Byrd

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
Michael Badnarik

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
Walter Lippmann

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
Karen Hughes

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
Andrew Jackson

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
Romano Prodi

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
Charles Edison