T Quotes
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“The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.”
“The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship - it guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom...”
“The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.”
“The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.”
“The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.”
“The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.”
Source: Speak
“The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.”
Source: Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States
“The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.”
“The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.”
“The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.”
“The Constitution doesn't mention rain.”
“The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.”
“The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.”
“The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.”
“The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.”
“The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.”
“The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.”
“The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.”
“The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.”
“The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.”
“The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.”
“The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.”
“The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.”
“The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.”
“The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.”
Source: Letters and Speeches
“The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.”
Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
“The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.”
“The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party.”
“The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.”
“The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state
“The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing.”
Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
“The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the third or the fourth wife and she has no rights inside her home and, on top of that, there is domestic abuse in her house, she is doomed. Under Islamic Sharia law a woman must accept beatings from her husband. Under Islamic Sharia, she must not revolt because she is the third or fourth wife.”
“The constitution has the luxury to make mistakes, it's just a book - not civilized humans.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.”
“The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen”
Source: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778
“The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.”
“The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.”
“The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.”
“The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.”
“The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.”
“The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.”
“The constitution is: a system of restraints against the natural tendency of government to expand in the direction of absolutism.”
“The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.”
“The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“The Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty. But also in ensuring that decision-making is made by those who the people can hold accountable.”
“The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”