Maria Ressa Quotes

The law doesn't create a right.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

How a constitution is written can sometimes matter almost as much as what it contains.

We must be intransigent when it comes to respecting our Constitution and our laws.

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

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

I don't believe in altering the Constitution.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.