Quotes About Constitutionalism

#1. Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

Orlando Figes

#2. The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

George Will

#3. The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Nancy Pearcey

#4. There is no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality
and none of these great goods without stability and order.

Clinton Rossiter

#5. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

Lionel Suggs

#6. What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Elias Hicks

#7. Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Ad Reinhardt

#8. Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

Eric Ries

#9. Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

Janeane Garofalo

#10. Let's go inside, she said. Lumikki nodded.

Salla Simukka

#11. The strongest man survives himself.

Drea Damara

#12. You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love.

Jennifer Worth

#13. If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

Dr. Dre

#14. I chose to follow you," he said, and his voice was deep and rich. "And I'll find you again.

Dan Wells

#15. I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

Albert Camus

#16. I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.

Bruce Lee