Assuming Quote by Stephen Holmes

A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to…

— Alexander Hamilton

“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

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution,…

— Milton Friedman

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only…

— Ayn Rand

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,” James Madison pointed out, “the great difficulty lies in this: you…

— Ben Carson

“Government, deriving its authority from the people as a whole, must act as a fiduciary to protect the natural resources held in trust from…

— Mary Christina Wood

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and…

— James Q. Wilson

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and…

— Anonymous

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go…

— Trevor Phillips

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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