Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-05-20 May 20, 2026Outside 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 JohnsonThe 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 PierceMan is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts.~ Ronald Reagan May 19, 2026In 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 HamiltonOptimism: 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 BierceAs I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie May 18, 2026The Constitution is a written instrument. As such it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now.~ United States Supreme CourtThe 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 SutherlandThe 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 May 15, 2026Force always attracts men of low morality. ~ Albert EinsteinIt rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.~ John WayneMoral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.~ Vittorio de Sica May 14, 2026Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.~ BuddhaTruth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.~ Emily DickinsonTruth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.~ William Cullen Bryant Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print