Advantage Quote by Lysander Spooner

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by…

— John Roberts

The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its…

— Henry Clay

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

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known…

— James Madison

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little…

— Walter E. Williams

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation…

— Thomas Jefferson

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a…

— Aristotle

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

— William Howard Taft

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free…

— Alexander Hamilton

[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power…

— Barry Goldwater