Allowed Quote by George Haven Putnam

I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey…

— Lawrence Auster

I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

— Maxime Bernier

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor…

— Tommy Franks

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

— Bill Clinton

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

— Samuel Adams

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding…

— David Lloyd

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me…

— Martin Van Buren

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions…

— Ayn Rand

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.

— Mohammed Morsi

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.

— Thomas DiLorenzo