What’s the Constitution between friends?
Constitution Quotes
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once […]
Constitutional law like other mortal contrivances has to take some chances.
The great generalities of the Constitution have a content and significance that vary from age to age.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
But the provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal.
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
If the thing has been practiced for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
