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Why we need the Constitution

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 26, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags William O. Douglas

Protected by the Constitution

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 26, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Daniel Webster

The logic of the Constitution in two sentences

The attributes of the federal government were carefully defined [in the Constitution], and all that was not included among them was declared to remain to the governments of the individual states. Thus the government of the states remained the rule, and that of the federal government the exception.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 7, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Alexis de Tocqueville

Our government is above the law

I call the present system ‘Post-Constitutional America.’ As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 7, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Joe Sobran

Liberty lost

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories Constitution, libertyTags John Adams

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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