Constitution Quote by Barry Goldwater Download Open image “The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.” — Barry Goldwater ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution Function Government Instruments Politics
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” -Patrick Henry” — Mark Goodwin Copy Share
The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out paper. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image