Constitutionality Quotes

#1. Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Thomas Woods

#2. Life without a cause will have no effect.

Habeeb Akande

#3. The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

John Podhoretz

#4. I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think).

Stephen King

#5. Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Leo Rosten

#6. This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

Salvador Allende

#7. I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#8. Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.

Timothy Griffin

#9. A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

John C. Calhoun

#10. We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

Lester R. Brown

#11. The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

Mariano Rajoy

#12. Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Woody Allen

#13. We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Joseph Sobran

#14. The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

Jeffrey Chiesa

#15. The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Everett Dirksen

#16. One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

Frederick Hart

#17. I'm never quite as excited as people think because with my voice, when I shout, I squeak.

Sid Waddell

#18. The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Felix Frankfurter

#19. 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

Gary Bauer

#20. A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.

M.J. Rose

#21. I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

Tom Hiddleston

#22. No animal admires another animal.

Blaise Pascal

#23. She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#24. I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.

Robert Hurt

#25. If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

Tim Maleeny