The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.


Dahlia Lithwick

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood th...
DAHLIA LITHWICK
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally ...
DAHLIA LITHWICK
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring ...
C.S. LEWIS
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them...
CHRISTINE STEVENS
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
ROY MOORE
I was optimistic, because I saw how he touched them, how they were inspired by him and his success. ...
PETE MCDANIEL
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
GEORGES BERNANOS
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get ...
CHARLES MENGEL ALLEN
In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
JOHN MCCARTHY
So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each ot...
DAN SAVAGE
Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD
Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or for...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reig...
RACHILDE
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than t...
H. U. WESTERMAYER
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
Patriotic Americans were not only ‘True Framers of the Constitution’ but also ‘Finishers for F...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.
T.F. HODGE
Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre...
BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII
We've answered that request by saying it would take us more than a week to put our surveillance equi...
MELISSA FLEMING
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CATT
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would wan...
JEREMY CORBYN
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protectin...
MARIO MONTI
Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS
I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
BEN SAVAGE
I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become e...
DAHLIA LITHWICK
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion ...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS
...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS
How would we want to hurt them in any manner if they were part of what we're doing, and we wish them...
BRUCE READ
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be intere...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be intere...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
I'm a wanderess
I'm a one night stand
Don't belong to no city
Don't belong to no man<...
HALSEY
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and...
ROBIN HOBB
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
BEN SAVAGE
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to t...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it
BARBARA JORDAN
Well, I would be fooling my-self if I said it didn't set us back some, because it did. After all, we...
RON AGOR
Let us clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds. It is nothing less than a sordid cr...
EDMUND DAVIES
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY
What we were able to do is compare the binding site of both the viral RNA and the cells' cap binding...
EVA NOGALES
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens w...
BASSEM YOUSSEF
We would definitely be interested in partnering with the BSA in the future. No one can do it alone.
GABRIEL ALBORNOZ
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited ...
AMBROSE BIERCE
We have an opening for concertmaster, and we weren't able to find anybody in the last set of auditio...
ZUBIN MEHTA
There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to r...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remo...
J. RUSSELL LYNES
The child is father of the man;/ And I could wish my days to be/ Bound each to each by natural piety...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a ...
RICKY SCHRODER
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
An uneven playing surface will affect us more than them. They play more of a more direct, aerial gam...
XABI ALONSO
I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I wo...
JAN HUS
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of ...
LAFCADIO HEARN
To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kin...
FRANCIS COLLINS
We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON
I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see t...
NIKKI ROWE
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
HENRY MOORE
There is no effort being made on the part of any Republican, that I'm aware of, that would allow us ...
TOM DASCHLE
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conce...
HERBERT CROLY
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpe...
RICHARD M. NIXON
This is the kind of bio-inspired technologies and systems of the future where self-directed and self...
RAM PRASAD
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon bel...
JODI KANTOR
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
This medal belongs to a lot of people who put in years and years of hard work and dedication. There ...
BENJAMIN AGOSTO
I think most Americans would be interested in the error rate in the sense of how many people are wro...
PAUL CASSELL
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry ...
MITCH DANIELS
Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
WILLIAM PENN
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t...
STEVEN PINKER
Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we...
MARC COOPER
I have to live with the facts as they are, rather than as I wish they would be or think they might b...
ED KEON
Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they...
M.T. ANDERSON
It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any
WILLIAM PENN
There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return mo...
NAPOLEON HILL
A lot of artists say they'd be happy in a classless society. But artists are often the first to dece...
BRAD HOLLAND
To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose...
BRYANT MCGILL
Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO
I think all of us are inspired. We made it through this year and were so much more successful than w...
CAROLYN GILL
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

More Dahlia Lithwick

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood th...
DAHLIA LITHWICK
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally ...
DAHLIA LITHWICK
I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become e...
DAHLIA LITHWICK
With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I...
KAT DAHLIA
I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get...
KAT DAHLIA
Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin i...
KAT DAHLIA
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restauran...
KAT DAHLIA
I just want people that like my music to like me.
KAT DAHLIA
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
KAT DAHLIA
I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see...
KAT DAHLIA
I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
KAT DAHLIA
You have to do this early. 'You want it so that when the child gets older, they want to go to the li...
DR. DAHLIA HALL
A 6-month-old is going to put a book in their mouth, which is fine ? this is why they make cardboard...
DR. DAHLIA HALL
It's not about teaching the child to read. It's about teaching the children to love to read.
DR. DAHLIA HALL