Constitution Quotes

"Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been."

"Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing."

"However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Whatever the Constitution may or may not provide, the welfare of the country will depend upon the way in which the country is administered."

Rajendra Prasad

"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

George Washington

"The Constitution is not a mere lawyers' document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age."

B. R. Ambedkar

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”

“I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.”

“Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.”

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it to secure the blessings of liberty to the whole people, women as well as men.”

“The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.”

“I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us, those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House, from some of our impulses that we'd like to pursue.”

“No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution: what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvellously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”

“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”

“The judiciary will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution.”

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

Learned Hand

"However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Constitution is not a mere lawyers' document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age."

B. R. Ambedkar

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."

Charles Evans Hughes

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."

Robert H. Jackson

"We must never forget, that it is a constitution we are expounding."

John Marshall

"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."

John Marshall Harlan

"The judiciary... will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution."