Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-07-19 Jul 19, 2021I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.~ Grover ClevelandPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.~ Lord ActonShame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!~ Samuel Adams Jul 16, 2021The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.~ AristotleHonesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.~ Josh BillingsThe fundamental principle is this: No matter how worthwhile an end may be, if there is no constitutional authority to pursue it, then the federal government must step aside and leave the matter to the states or to private parties. The president and Congress can proceed only from constitutional authority, not from good intentions alone. If Congress thinks it necessary to expand its powers, the Framers crafted an amendment process for that purpose. But too often, rather than follow that process, Congress has disregarded the limits set by the Constitution and gutted our frontline defense against overweening federal government.~ Robert A. Levy Jul 15, 2021We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.~ Davy Crockett...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.~ Francis BaconAbsolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.~ Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2 Jul 14, 2021A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.~ Grover ClevelandEveryone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic BastiatGive a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.~ Chinese Proverb Jul 13, 2021Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.~ Henrik Ibsen[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print