|
2012 October 26
|
"[T]he power to declare war is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature." |
"In their great wisdom, our Founding Fathers, gathered in Philadelphia to draft the new U.S. Constitution, gave the sole authority to declare war to the U.S. Congress. ... our Founders understood that it was essential, to secure a representative form of republican self-government, that the power to declare war must be in the hands of Congress, and not in the Executive Branch. ...
Nothing has transpired in the intervening centuries to justify any alteration in their wise decision. Under our Federal Constitution, only the Congress has the power to declare war, and that must remain a cardinal principle. In recent decades, we have seen an erosion of that Constitutional principle, and I fully concur that this erosion must be halted and reversed." |
"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so." |
|
2012 October 25
|
"When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict,
when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened,
when there are no consistent rules,
neighboring rulers will take advantage of this." |
|
2012 October 24
|
"A man is either free or he is not.
There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom." |
"In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes." |
"By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong." |
|
2012 October 23
|
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either." |
"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,
we don’t believe in it at all." |
"I believe in my right to be wrong,
and still more in my right to be right." |
|
2012 October 22
|
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most times he will pick himself up and carry on." |
"Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power." |
"There is no subjugation so perfect
as that which keeps the appearance of freedom
for in that way one captures volition itself." |
|
|
|
