Politics Quote by Ayn Rand

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only…

— Ayn Rand

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…

— Mark Goodwin

“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

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

— Roy Moore

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,

— Ron Paul

“Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by…

— Barry M. Goldwater

“Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.”

— Michael S. Greve

“once the citizenry acquiesces to a new power, believing that it does not affect them, it becomes institutionalized and legitimized and objection becomes impossible.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

“When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying…

— Howard Zinn

“Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.”

— Lawrence Goldstone