Freedom Quote by Thomas DiLorenzo

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

I served 40 years in government, and I'm not looking forward to a position or an assignment. Of course, I have always said if…

— Colin Powell

At home, we have begun the monumental task of returning the government back to the people on a scale not seen in many, many…

— Donald Trump

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though…

— John Adams

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal…

— Thomas Woods

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no…

— James Madison

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves…

— James Madison

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union,…

— Andrew Jackson

Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements…

— David L. Bazelon