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This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain.
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102
a Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the state or of laissez faire
103
While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government.
Robert H. Jacksonverified·Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (concurring)·June 2, 1952
104
Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.
105
We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
106
A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.
107
Government with insolence is despotism; but when contempt is added it becomes worse; and to pay for contempt is the excess of slavery.
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The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting its government.
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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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Marshall's statement cannot be read to mean in any sense that a President is above the law
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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If parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance sufficient to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends.
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Never with my consent shall an officer of the people, compensated for his services out of their pockets, become the pliant instrument of Executive will.
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When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.
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The public officials charged with executing the law might do injustice in heated controversy through unconscious pride of opinion and obstinacy of conclusion.
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Show me the government which can be maintained only by destroying the rights of a portion of the people; and you will indicate the duty of openly revolting against it.
William Lloyd Garrisonverified·No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York·February 14, 1854
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We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression.
118
The quality of advocacy turns on the depth of the conviction; and government has no power to invade that sanctuary of belief and conscience.
119
As indispensable to the preservation of our system of self-government, the independence of the representatives of the States and the people is guaranteed by the Constitution, and they owe no responsibility to any human power but their constituents.
120
I view it as an extreme measure, to be resorted to only in extraordinary cases, as where it may become necessary to defend the executive against the encroachments of the legislative power or to prevent hasty and inconsiderate or unconstitutional legislation.
121
The Executive has authority to recommend (not to dictate) measures to Congress.
122
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all of the people all the time
Attribution contested
No contemporaneous record of Lincoln saying this survives. It first appears in recollections published decades after his death, and has also been credited to P. T. Barnum. Even the wording is unstable: this is McClure's 1901 text, which differs from the version usually quoted today. Treat the phrasing as the compiler's, not Lincoln's.