Fight Quote by Elmer Davis

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

— George McGovern

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes…

— Claire McCaskill

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what…

— Cole Younger

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed…

— Abraham Lincoln

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

— Walter Cronkite

“The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.”

— Michael Wolff

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

— Trish Regan

“Were the Founding Fathers wise and just men trying to achieve a good balance? In fact, they did not want a balance, except one…

— Howard Zinn

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the…

— Robert Byrd

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

— Ross Douthat

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

— R. Lee Ermey

Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers…It…

— James Madison