Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-02-24 Feb 23, 2026Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.~ Robert BurnsLiberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.~ Thomas JeffersonThough the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.~ Thomas Paine Feb 20, 2026If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.~ A. K. GriffinUseless laws weaken necessary laws.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatMany laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many bad laws.~ Walter Savage Landor Feb 19, 2026It is an accepted maxim of international law that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions ...~ Justice Horace Gray[T]he traditional power of the Nation over the alien is a power inherent in every sovereign state.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonThe Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.~ William H. Rehnquist 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 Previous week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print