Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Gerald R. Ford Quote: 'Our constitution works. Our great republic ...'

Related Quotes

The integrity of our government, our Republic, fundamentally relies on the principle that no person, not even the president or the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is above our laws.
Paul Gosar
A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
Adrian Cronauer
Tags: People Out Our
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
Anthony Albanese
sunset sea beach water horizon
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.


Andrew Jackson
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Michael Newdow
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
Bill Gates
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
Henry Knox
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
Lorenzo Snow
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
Bobby Jindal
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
Richard Engel
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
Vint Cerf
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Barbara Jordan
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
Lyman Trumbull
Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
Anna Howard Shaw
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Michael Bloomberg
Tags: Change You People
wave water surf sea ocean foam
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.


Daniel Webster
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Tags: Them His Does
tree landscape horizon sky scenery
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.


William O. Douglas