Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than
private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument
gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies
to all subjects."

~ Andrew Johnson  

"The dangers of a concentration of all power
in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours
are too obvious to be disregarded."

~ Franklin Pierce  

"Man is not free unless government is limited...
As government expands, liberty contracts."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

~ Andrew Carnegie  

~ United States Supreme Court  

"The broad statement that the federal government can exercise no powers except those specifically enumerated in the Constitution, and such implied powers as are necessary and proper to carry into effect the enumerated powers, is categorically true only in respect of our internal affairs. In the field of international relations, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates. Into the field of negotiation the Senate cannot intrude; and Congress itself is powerless to invade it. "

~ Justice George Sutherland

"The President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations. Of consequence, the demand of a foreign nation can only be made on him."

~ Justice John Marshall