Constitution Quote by Wendell Phillips

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those…

— Richard Henry Lee

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are…

— Mike Pence

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was…

— John Adams

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

— Patrick Henry

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents…

— Alexander Hamilton

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death…

— William Randolph Hearst

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

— Thomas Piketty

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic…

— Gerald R. Ford