The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled. – Arthur Goldberg
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. – Antonin Scalia
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate. – Caleb Cushing
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. – Arthur Goldberg
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it’s not. It’s a solid-based document and it shouldn’t be played with. – Chuck Norris
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often. – Bernie Sanders
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. – Caleb Cushing
Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself. – Austin Clarke
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
If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is – is unlawful under – under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things. – Antonin Scalia
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it. – Andrew Johnson
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. – C. V. Raman
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators. – Benjamin N. Cardozo
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. – Barack Obama
I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers. – Blake Farenthold
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. – Arlen Specter
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. – Abraham Lincoln
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
The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree. – Edward Kennedy
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. – Ginny Brown-Waite
In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. – Edwin Meese
In our administration, we’re going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution. – Doug Ducey
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. – Felix Frankfurter
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention. – Edmund Morgan
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. – Carolyn Maloney
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy – judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes – because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. – George Will