Able Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free…

— Alexander Hamilton

Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring…

— Charley Reese

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by…

— John Marshall

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the…

— Kishore Chandra Deo

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the…

— Ted Cruz

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by…

— John Roberts

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

— Alexander Hamilton

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government…

— George Washington

Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we…

— Harry Belafonte

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me…

— Martin Van Buren

“But in writing your constitution let me invite attention the wonderful virtues of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with…

— Robert A. Heinlein