Unconstitutional Quotes

• Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

  Charley Reese

  Men, Aggravation, Want

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• The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ebola, Political Will, Nwo

  The Washington Post, December 23, 1973.

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• The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Society, Likes

  News conference, Washington, D.C., reported in The New York Times, p. 38, February 25, 1971.

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• I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

  Michael Badnarik

  Gun, Law, Want

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• It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

  William Rehnquist

  Law, Frustrated, Majority

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

  Michael Badnarik

  Agency, Needs, Individual

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• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Church, Partnership, States

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  Ted Olson

  Marriage, Hair, Ideas

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• Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

  Stockwell Day

  Media, Definitions, Court

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

  Fred Korematsu

  Military

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• Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Action, Legitimate Power

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Order, Immigration

  Source: www.univision.com

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• Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Found, Stop And Frisk, Needed

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it....This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism....It's unconstitutional.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Next Week, Jewels

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• Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

  William O. Douglas

  Race, White, Black

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• The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods,  are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

  Samuel Adams

  Government, Ideas, Community

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• It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Cleveland, Income

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• How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Rights, Government

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• It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.'

  Ted Olson

  Errors, Law, Would Be

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• Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Judging, Wisconsin

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• The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.

  Sharron Angle

  Levels, Should, Department

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• I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it really is a moral view, and that is that the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes...Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me-I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption...I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place.

  Jay Sekulow

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

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• There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Military, Should Have

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

  Potter Stewart

  Liberty, Needs, Speech

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• Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

  Joseph Sobran

  Liberty, Libertarian, Program

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