Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts – not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars . This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried.
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own – my creator’s – not man’s. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice – wrong or avarice of another’s wishes, though those wishes come to me in […]
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
My great concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God’s side. attributed to
