Calvin Coolidge Quotes

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

In 'The Heritage Guide to the Constitution,' you find a most remarkable collection of scholarly work. Over a hundred people have contributed to explaining what the Constitution says, what it means, how it has been interpreted over the years, and how it is important to people today.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

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

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.

I think that he was responsible for putting the flesh and bones on the Constitution.

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

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

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

I am a constitutionalist. I believe in the constitution. I don't believe in altering the constitution.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100% Americanism.