Jim Collins Quotes


The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree. Edward Kennedy Constitution 221
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Constitution 103
The right of election is the very essence of the constitution. Junius Constitution 97
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. Thomas Babington Macaulay Constitution 87
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 Constitution 86
We have to worry about protecting the Constitution. Karen Hughes Constitution 84
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. Felix Frankfurter Constitution 83
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. Thomas Babington Macaulay Constitution 83
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. Learned Hand Constitution 81
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. Henry Clay Constitution 81
The Constitution was about a limitation on power. Roy Moore Constitution 81
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. Mitch McConnell Constitution 80
Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? Joe Biden Constitution 80
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. George Bernard Shaw Constitution 79
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country. Paul Gillmor Constitution 78
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. Salmon Portland Chase Constitution 78
A Constitution should be short and obscure. Napoleon Bonaparte Constitution 76
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. Potter Stewart Constitution 70
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger Constitution 68
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. Will Rogers Constitution 67
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. Richard Mentor Johnson Constitution 63
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. James K. Polk Constitution 60
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. Lamar S. Smith Constitution 59
There is a higher law than the Constitution. William Seward Constitution 58
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford Constitution 57
This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue. Jean-Pierre Raffarin Constitution 54
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. Robert Byrd Constitution 53
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. James Madison Constitution 50
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. Charles Edison Constitution 48
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. Lyndon B. Johnson Constitution 41
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 Constitution 39
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. Anthony Kennedy Constitution 36
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution. Richard Pryor Constitution 35
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. Joseph De Maistre Constitution 33
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. Robert Bork Constitution 31
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. Learned Hand Constitution 27

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