Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void.
U.S. Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body. Christopher Reeve
Reader’s Digest, October 2004
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Observe that any social movement which begins by redistributing income, ends up by distributing sacrifices. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping that Saddam Hussein changes his mind and becomes a gentle soul, the risk that somehow inaction will make the world safer, is a risk I’m not willing to take for the American people,” Bush said in his prime-time news conference. George W. Bush
March 6, 2003
True Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Hon. Ron Paul, M.D.
The laws which you [Congress] pass and which people like me [a character at the Treasury Dept.] enforce are supposed to serve the needs of the citizens, not the needs of the government. Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
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If, as some suggest, capital punishment is legalized murder then jail is legalized kidnapping. Airot Parker
Court.com, June 8, 2001
[T]he government is not the owner of the citizen’s income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income. Ayn Rand
Government Financing in a Free Society, V.O.S. (1905-1982)
When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826.