B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding ... a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adopted to the various crises of human affairs.

Whatever the framers … intended, there is no reason to believe that they possessed the best insights or ultimate wisdom as to the meaning of their words for subsequent generations ... Words do not have fixed meanings.

For it is always to be remembered that it is the spirit with which a constitution is in practice administered, that is the great point of consequence, far more than the letter of the law

Laws, especially those of a constitutional nature like the Basic Law, which have been formulated through reasonable legislative processes, should never be freely interpreted or lightly abandoned.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.