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- 99◆ The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
- Harry A Blackmun98◆ To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race
- Calvin Coolidge98◆ The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it
- Felix Frankfurter98◆ We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution
- Charles Evans Hughes98◆ As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
- Felix Frankfurter98◆ The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
- Samuel Adams98◆ The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
- William Orville Douglas98◆ The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
- Thomas Paine98◆ If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes98◆ A Constitution should be short and obscure
- Napoleon Bonaparte98◆ The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon
- George Washington98◆ The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
- Jesse Ventura98◆ The portion of a law usually found unconstitutional is the teeth
- Washington Irving98◆ It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention
- Lyndon B Johnson98
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