Abandoned Quote by Wayne LaPierre

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

— Thomas Jefferson

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived…

— David E. Wilkins

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep,…

— Stephen Covey

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

— George Washington

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who…

— Hugo Black

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their…

— John Marshall

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle…

— John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

— Felix Frankfurter

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may…

— Thomas Jefferson