428 Quotes About Constitution

My definition of 'Freedom of Speech' is as follows. The right to speak freely anywhere at anytime about any subject without the fear of harm, reprimand, punishment, or other. Until this is true, we have no 'Freedom of Speech'.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

The dead should not rule the living.

I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make you a future enemy of the state.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government soon would be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed. Those who made our Constitution saw this, and used the most apt and comprehensive language in it to prevent such a catastrophe.[Weiss v. District Board, March 18, 1890]