Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-03-21 Mar 21, 2018[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power -- and even the duty -- to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.~ Glenn Harlan ReynoldsIt is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.~ James MonroeIt is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.~ John C. Calhoun Mar 20, 2018But as the plan of the [Constitutional] convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.~ Alexander HamiltonIf the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.~ Daniel Webster[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.~ Thomas Jefferson Mar 19, 2018The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union. ~ Alexander HamiltonIn the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution.~ Chisholm v. GeorgiaNot only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the states, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the states, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the national government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible states.~ Texas v. White Mar 16, 2018I shall not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except such as I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land.~ American Bar AssociationEqual laws protecting equal rights -- the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.~ James MadisonThe spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.~ William Ellery Channing Mar 15, 2018Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.~ CervantesHe that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.~ Charles Caleb ColtonOur own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print