Challenges Quote by Al Gore

“John Adams even appealed the matter to higher spiritual realities when he said, “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is…

— Ben Carson

“Again, John Adams understood that the new Constitution simply lacked the powers to control a people who were, by their own lack of virtue,…

— Jack Pelham

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon…

— Gore Vidal

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

In our system of government, the Supreme Court ultimately decides on the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress or of presidential actions. When their…

— William Barr

“In a letter to soldiers in 1798, John Adams, a Founding Father and practicing Unitarian, remarked: We had no government armed with power capable…

— Rod Dreher

“Following in this tradition, Americans constitutions almost uniformly authorized American governments to act against their subjects only through and under law. As put by…

— Philip Hamburger

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

— Alexander Hamilton

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly…

— Mark Twain

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

— Woodrow Wilson

“If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt