Andrew Johnson Quotes

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

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

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.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

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

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

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.

If we’re going to do all the things that the Constitution says that legitimately we can do as a country, … we have to be able to have a Congress where people can talk together like our Founding Fathers did.

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.

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

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

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

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.

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

Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

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.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

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

No man in the U. S. I suppose, approved of every title in the constitution.