Us Constitution Quotes

“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words "unless inconvenient" to be found.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The Founding Faith, then, was not Christianity, and it was not secularism. It was religious liberty—a revolutionary formula for promoting faith by leaving it alone.”
― Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

“You do not have to think very hard to figure out what happens to a democratic society (more accurately a democratic republic) when long-standing interpretations of the 'rules of law' are mangled to reflect the personal desires of a handful of extremely wealthy people…”
― Aberjhani, Democratic Dilemmas and Divine Inspiration: On leadership and the fate of freedom in America

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality of all human beings was an equality of sovereignty; no man had more right to rule another than the other had to rule him.”
― Harry V. Jaffa

“Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.”
― Garry Wills, A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

“Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net”
― David Chiles

“The United States has experienced more than two centuries of political stability. When viewed against the background of world history, this is remarkable. The First Amendment has played a singularly important role. When citizens can openly criticize their government, changes come about through orderly political processes. When grievances exist, they must be aired, if not through the channels of public debate, then by riots in the streets. The First Amendment functions as a safety valve through which the pressures and frustrations of a heterogeneous society can be ventilated and defused.”
― Jacqueline R. Kanovitz, Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice

“In light of the unbroken record of invoking God's name in foundational documents throughout the world, throughout the colonies, and throughout history, the stubborn refusal of the US Constitution to invoke the Almighty is abnormal, historic, radical, and not accidental. But liberals miss a basic point, too: The framers of the Constitution were not contemplating the role of "government" in religion. They were debating the role of the national government in religion.”
― Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

“The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

“The Second Amendment could be rewritten to say "White Supremacy, being necessary to the security of a free State, the rights of white people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" without any appreciable difference to the laws and the rights of gun ownership as currently experienced.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

“One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.”
― Ron Brackin

“The sovereignty of "We the People of the United States" is admittedly an abstraction—an idea. But abstractions often have legal consequences. And the single idea of popular sovereignty generates a powerful set of legal implications covering a vast range of constitutional issues from limited government and judicial review to federalism and separation of powers to nullification and constitutional amendment. In one vital area of contemporary jurisprudence, however, the Supreme Court has fashioned doctrine wholly antithetical to the Constitution's organizing principle of popular sovereignty. By allowing both federal and state governments to invoke "sovereign immunity" from liability for constitutional violations, the Court has misinterpreted the Federalist Constitution's text, warped its unifying structure, and betrayed the intellectual history of the American Revolution that gave it birth. In effect, the Court has transformed "sovereignty" into the very tool of government supremacy that our Revolutionary forebears wielded pen and sword to destroy.”
― Akhil Reed Amar, Of Sovereignty and Federalism