Advancement Quote by Alexander Hamilton

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected…

— George Washington

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

— Roy Moore

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be…

— Howard Zinn

It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature…

— Alexander Hamilton

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the…

— Thomas Jefferson

A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to…

— Alexander Hamilton

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

— Horatio Seymour

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do…

— Harry Browne

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer