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.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I want a baby from an Italian – possibly Sicilian – donor.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius, when young, is divine.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.