Kishore Chandra Deo Quotes

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

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

The Constitution has to be supreme.

I believe in the Constitution.

Nothing is above the Constitution.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

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.

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

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed.

The constitution [of England] does not allow reasons of State to influence our judgment: God forbid it should! We must not regard political consequences; how formidable soever they might be; if rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say, Fiat justitia, ruat coelum

Law should rule over rulers, and not rulers over the law

The whole point of the Constitution is to limit at some point and in some way popular will.

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace.

There is a problem. We do have this little thing called the Constitution.

It is the nature and intention of a constitution to prevent governing by party, by establishing a common principle that shall limit and control the power and impulse of party, and that says to all parties, thus far shalt thou go and no further. But in the absence of a constitution, men look entirely to party; and instead of principle governing party, party governs principle.