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- There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be… — James Madison
- If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it… — George Washington
- I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,… — Cato the Younger
- Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to… — Henry James Sumner Maine
- A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is… — Thomas Paine
- I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus… — Mahatma Gandhi
- There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will… — Antonin Artaud
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — James Madison
- It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe
- That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by… — Joseph Story
- The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right… — Andrew Jackson