Citizens Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

— Thom Hartmann

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.”

— Lawrence Goldstone

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…

— Mark Goodwin

“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

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 Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“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

“Here the only one who has the right to prohibit anything is the government, we live in a democracy.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

— Sonia Sotomayor

“The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.”

— Jacob F. Roecker

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United…

— Abraham Lincoln