Constitution Quotes - Page 7

• We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

  Al Sharpton

  Government, Giving, Needs

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• When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

  Jesse Ventura

  Citizens, Arms, Sides

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.37, Villard

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• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  George Washington

  Travel, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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• Incluso esta nación (los EE.UU.) estará a punto de desmoronarse en pedazos y caer al suelo, y cuando la Constitución esté al borde de la ruina, este pueblo será el bastón en el que se apoyará la nación, y llevará la Constitución lejos del borde mismo de la destrucción.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, People, Crumbling

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• No he dicho 'ex presidente', he dicho 'presidente', y tengo los derechos constitucionales según la Constitución, incluida la inmunidad judicial.

  Saddam Hussein

  Derechos, Maldad, Presidente

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

  Grover Cleveland

  Believe, Government, Suffering

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Anchors, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.71

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• The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Safety, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (1955). “Political Writings: Representative Selections”

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• Confío en que la Constitución propuesta ofrezca una muestra genuina de gobierno representativo y republicano; y que responda, en un grado eminente, a todos los propósitos beneficiosos de la sociedad.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Gobierno, Titulaciones, Finalidad

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• En la formación de nuestra constitución se recoge la sabiduría de todas las épocas, se consulta a los legisladores de la antigüedad, así como las opiniones y los intereses de los millones de personas afectadas. En resumen, es un imperio de la razón.

  Noah Webster

  Age, Empires, Opinion

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.6

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• Si se preguntara: ¿Cuál es el deber más sagrado y la mayor fuente de nuestra seguridad en una República? La respuesta sería: Un respeto inviolable por la Constitución y las Leyes - la primera surge de la última... . Un respeto sagrado por la ley constitucional es el principio vital, la energía sustentadora de un gobierno libre.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Government, Answers

  Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr

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• Señor Presidente, apruebo esta Constitución porque no espero nada mejor y porque no estoy seguro de que no sea la mejor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Not Sure, Consent

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Believe, Government, Philadelphia

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• The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Giving, United States

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers”, p.468

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• I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

  George W. Bush

  Oath Of Office, President, Constitution Of The United States

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• I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

  Tom DeLay

  Jobs, Government, Constitution Of The United States

  "Talk Back Live" on CNN, December 19, 1995.

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• I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one.

  James Madison

  Government, Principles, Bidding

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.546

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• Para el éxito de una sociedad democrática como la nuestra es muy importante que tengamos tres poderes del Estado, cada uno de ellos con cierta independencia y cierto control sobre los otros dos. Así lo establece la Constitución.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Éxito, Dos, Gobierno

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• Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

  Jerome Corsi

  Running, Party, President

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• The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, United States, Innocence

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• We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack

  John Ashcroft

  Thinking, Risk, Way

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• One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

  Adrian Cronauer

  School, Law, Aggravation

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• The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Power, Principles, Lost

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3

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• La genialidad de nuestra Constitución reside en que, bajo su cobijo de instituciones duraderas y principios arraigados, existe un amplio espacio para la rica fertilidad de la invención política estadounidense.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Política, Principios, Genio

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966", p.6, Best Books on

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• Si los hombres fueran ángeles, no sería necesario ningún gobierno.

  James Madison

  Adversidad, Ángel, Hombres

  El Federalista nº 51 (1788)

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