Politics Quote by Mark Goodwin

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

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

— Patrick Henry

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

— John C. Calhoun

“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on…

— Ayn Rand

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

— Barry Goldwater

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

“The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.”

— Michael S. Greve

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

— Rand Paul