Constitutional Adherence Quotes

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

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

Tinkers may work, quacks may prescribe, and demagogues may deceive, but I declare to you that there is no remedy for us ... but in adhering to the Constitution.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.

We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

Today, the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned

I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.

[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom...men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

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