Constitution Quote by Thom Hartmann

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

— Penn Jillette

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it…

— Roy Moore

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights…

— Jehane Noujaim

Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug.

— Ellen Ullman

“Gary Lawson observes: “The modern administrative state is not merely unconstitutional; it is anti-constitutional. The Constitution was designed specifically to prevent the emergence of…

— Philip Hamburger

The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary act, and…

— Ron Dellums

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would…

— John Adams

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me…

— Martin Van Buren

Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the…

— W. Cleon Skousen

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

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those…

— Henry George

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must…

— Thomas Jefferson