The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.