Acting Quote by Martin Van Buren

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected…

— Tony Judt

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

— Jonathan Swift

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the…

— Stephen Holmes

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument…

— Andrew Johnson

It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can…

— Learned Hand

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of…

— Anonymous

Congress has broad powers to regulate and control commerce. Congress also cannot force a state to 'un-decriminalize' something; states' rights are routinely upheld by…

— Matt Gaetz

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper…

— John Locke

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

— Mike Lee