Nong Duc Manh Quotes

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views …

When I'll... form a government, I don't intend to cooperate with those who go against the State of Israel.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power.

The superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations .

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Democracies do not begin and end with elections.

The Constitution was essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental rights of private property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.

The Supreme Court is the living voice of the Constitution—that is, of the will of the people expressed in the fundamental law they have enacted. It is ... the conscience of the people.... It is the guarantee of the minority who, when threatened by the impatient vehemence of the majority, can appeal to this permanent law, finding the interpreter and enforcer thereof in a Court set high above the assaults of faction.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

People’s Constitution

Constitution! Wisdom. Justice. Moderation

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

As the legislature of my state has thought proper to bring my name forward without consulting me, I mean to be silent, and let the people do as seemeth unto them.

If there is any power in this country greater than the power of the people, we will destroy it.

The new Constitution should be ratified in the most unexceptional form, and by the supreme authority of the people themselves.