Constitution Quotes

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.