Melissa Etheridge Quotes

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

Americans have to have a link with their Constitution. They have to understand it in the context of their own time.

The great object of the civil government is the improvement of those who are members of the civil compact.

Our greatest present disloyalty to the Constitution lies in the fact that we do not study and criticize it as did the men who devised and adopted it.

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

Because all of us believe that our democratic form of government can cope adequately with modern problems as they arise, it is patriotic as well as logical for us to prove that we can meet new national needs with new laws consistent with a historic constitutional framework clearly intended to receive liberal and not narrow interpretation.

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

It they do not succeed with the Constitution, then they must succeed without it.

When the Chief Justice read me the oath and came to the words ‘support the Constitution of the United States’ I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.”.

A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And each generation must learn about the Constitution and the values of constitutional institutions within the context of their own time, within the environment of their own time.

Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

I guess when there is room to improve, and where there is the desire to improve, improvement comes.

I think it's inevitable to evolve if we allow ourselves.

I'm interested in many different things. I guess I just want to evolve.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.