Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-02-18 Feb 18, 2026The Government of the United States has broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens. ... It is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign, not the 50 separate States.~ Justice Anthony M. KennedyFor more than a century, this Court has recognized that the admission and exclusion of foreign nationals is a 'fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government’s political departments largely immune from judicial control.'~ Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court Feb 17, 2026[A] limited Constitution ... can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing ... To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.~ Alexander HamiltonIf you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.~ Sir Winston ChurchillThe federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections.~ Stephen Chippendale Feb 16, 2026Liberty, equality -- bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.~ Henri-Frédéric AmielOn the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.~ James MadisonMy country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrims' pride! From ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!~ Rev. Samuel Francis Smith Feb 13, 2026You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.~ Booker T. WashingtonEach must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.~ Mark TwainReaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.~ Norman Mailer Feb 12, 2026Is it possible to control man's mental evolution so as to make him proof against the psychoses of hate and destructiveness? Here I am thinking by no means only of the so-called uncultured masses. Experience proves that it is rather the so-called "Intelligentzia" that is most apt to yield to these disastrous collective suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest, synthetic form upon the printed page.~ Albert EinsteinWhat is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole Law: all the rest is interpretation.~ HillelWe have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.~ Robert Hughes Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print