Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 194 Congress quotesCongress QuotesCongress Next 20 quotes A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.~ John Adams I Said to my Wife, I have accepted a Seat in the House of Representatives and thereby have consented to my own Ruin to your Ruin and the Ruin of our Children. I give you this Warning that you may prepare your Mind for your Fate.~ John Adams There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.~ John Adams All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.~ John Quincy Adams And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.~ Samuel Adams The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.~ Samuel Adams He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.~ Samuel Adams We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.~ Donald Alexander Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees.~ Roger Allen We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.~ Fisher Ames If the legislature clearly misinterprets a Constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right.~ Amos v. Mosley The forum [is] an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.~ Anacharsis A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.~ Walter Bagehot Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.~ F. Lee Bailey What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?~ Mayor Marion Barry Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.~ Gerald Barzan Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme ... like other departments of government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the state who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void.~ Billings v. Hall Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.~ Dr. Jim Boren Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again.~ Dr. Jim Boren When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.~ Dr. Jim Boren Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print