“Constitution is one of the first essentials on which our future and progress are based.”
Eid ul Fitr Message, 24 June 1952
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“Constitution is one of the first essentials on which our future and progress are based.”
Eid ul Fitr Message, 24 June 1952
Speech before the Chamber of Commerce, Elmira, New York (3 May 1907); published in Addresses and Papers of Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York, 1906–1908 (1908), p. 139
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”
The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (1980), p. 8
Other speeches and writings
Responding to the demands for a written constitution, October 20, 1967. http://www.muqatel.com/openshare/Wthaek/Khotob/Khotub13/AKhotub119_6-1.htm_cvt.htm#أم%20القرى
Speech, United States Senate (11 March 1850).
Context: It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true that it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold no arbitrary authority over it. We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether lawfully acquired or seized by usurpation. The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare and to liberty.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
News conference, Washington, D.C., reported in The New York Times (February 25, 1971), p. 38.
His broadcast to the nation on the eve of the Republic day on 25 January 1996, in: p. 244.
Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001