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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
Constitution
Generation
Made
Unlimited
States
Posterity
Constitution Of The United States
Merely
Undefined
Perpetual
Existed
Endless
Then
United
United States
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Freedom
Constitution
Hate
Thought
Free
Other
Those
More
Attachment
Principle
Calls
Than
Any
Us
Who
Agree
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
David Wilkerson
Change
Constitution
Nation
Own
Wicked
Our
Astray
Defying
Given
Judges
Led
Governors
Being
Mayors
Agendas
Who
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Learned Hand
Constitution
Women
Liberty
Law
Men
Men And Women
Lies
No Law
Court
Hearts
Dies
Save
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Antonin Scalia
Today
Constitution
Living
Society
Ought
Adopted
Dead
Call
Court
Current
Enduring
Mean
Prefer
Much
Means
Meant
Less
Interpret
Apply
Thinks
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
Ben Shapiro
Bible
Constitution
Despise
Way
Favorite
Menu
Take
Selective
Allow
Picking
Because
Democrats
How
How Much
Same
Quotation
Chinese
Realize
Much
Choosing
Who
Many
Whole
Interpret
Designed
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell
You
Constitution
Writing
Country
Later
Compromise
Compromises
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Got
Making
Arrive
Were
Did
Move
Just
Forward
Start
Consensus
Philadelphia
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk
Great
Constitution
Rights
Minorities
Object
Restrain
Just
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Constitution
Would
Look
Were
Drafting
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
Susan B. Anthony
Constitution
Rights
People
Independence
Organic
Several
States
Alike
Pretends
Bestow
Constitutions
Laws
Propose
Protect
Exercise
Territories
God-Given
Declaration
Them
United
United States
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
B. R. Ambedkar
Life
Today
Religion
Constitution
Equality
Liberty
Political
Fraternity
Embodied
Indians
Ideal
Ideologies
Governed
Denies
Preamble
Different
Social
Them
Two
Set
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
Narendra Modi
Hope
Constitution
People
Equality
Opportunity
Harmony
Our
Ray
Participation
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Stephen Covey
Life
You
Constitution
Vision
Values
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Statement
Solid
Criterion
Something
Write
Mission
Becomes
Overnight
Which
Your
Measure
Expression
Fundamentally
If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required by the Constitution. That's where we are. That is utterly mindless.
Antonin Scalia
You
Constitution
Hate
Mindless
Must
Absolutely
Unconstitutional
Where
Anything
Required
Why
Utterly
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government
Constitution
States
Rules
Marvelously
Written
Most
Proved
Itself
Elastic
United
Ever
United States
Compilation
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.
Malcolm X
Constitution
Citizen
Black
Gun
Own
Club
Every
Babies
Constitutional
Lawful
Fact
Dogs
Wolves
Article
Just
Being
In Fact
Little
Shot
Should
Rifle
Right
Number
Two
Guarantees
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor
Justice
Constitution
Everyone
Says
Like
Am
Just
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 applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson
Constitution
Legal
Broad
Our
Citizens
More
Only
Gives
Outside
Instrument
Principle
Within
Limits
Private
Subjects
Than
Authority
Us
Much
Functions
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
Constitution
Political
Wind
Wave
Our
Written
New
Judges
Blown
Sands
Successive
Washed
Each
Away
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
John Tyler
Day
Constitution
Made
Composed
Purposes
Casually
Materials
Nor
Influence
Ascendant
Warped
Flexible
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
Walter Cronkite
Constitution
Enemy
Giving
Aid
Charge
Lead
Comfort
Wartime
Treason
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson
Government
Constitution
Power
Practice
President
Settled
States
Entire
Laws
Executive
Executive Power
Vested
Whole
United
United States
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
Andrew Johnson
Constitution
Andy
Johnson
Understands
Am
Uphold
Sworn
Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all.
Charles A. Beard
Constitution
Before
Congress
President
Way
Collateral
Brought
Laws
Only
Unconstitutional
True
Safeguard
Because
Courts
Expected
Certainly
Many
Acts
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford
Government
Great
Constitution
People
Men
Our
Rule
Laws
Great Republic
Republic
Works
Here
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
James K. Polk
Government
Constitution
Frame
Federal
Powers
Limited
Proves
Intended
Which
Creates
Whole
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