Politics Quotes

"The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American."

"The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel."

"The greatest monarchy must in the end yield to the popular will."

"England is lost; and will some of you join in mourning over her decaying freedom?"

"There is an awful moment impending over this country, which will require wisdom and virtue to save us."

"Has Great Britain any right to say to us: Submit to our legislation, and we pledge ourselves to redress your grievances?"

"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."

"The Constitution was not made to satisfy the whole South, nor the whole North, but a portion of them."

"The government should protect the citizen, not prey upon him."

"No nation can long survive the betrayal of its own people."

"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when the public is properly informed."

"In our country, the people are sovereign, and we must respect that sacred trust."

"The remedy for tyranny is not negotiation, but resistance."

"When despotism becomes unbearable, it becomes the right of a people to alter their government."

"The bonds of society are dissolved when liberty is surrendered."

"The value of a nation is measured by the freedom it grants its people."

"It is not a question of how much power the federal government should have, but rather how that power should be exercised."

"Let us recollect that the object of the constitutional convention was to form such a government as would, when reasonably administered, give a happy issue."

"A government is republican in proportion as every member composeth a part of the sovereignty."

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power."

"The science of government is the science of experiment."

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

"Remember that you are always the government."

"The greatest evil that can befall a free people is to be submitted to laws made by those in whom they have not confidence."

"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."

"If we are not careful the very foundations of our nation can crumble from within."

"The foundation of national policy must be laid in the principles of private morality."

"To be consistent in supporting the Constitution, we must not tolerate either anarchy or tyranny."