Constitutional right Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize…

— Abe Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

— Abraham Lincoln

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty…

— Paul Craig Roberts

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set…

— Thomas Kuhn

This country is a republic.

— Rick Santelli

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

— Thomas Jefferson

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

— Maximilien Robespierre

“The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of their administrative…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt