Oldies but Goodies
"an expression of the American mind"
Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1825
"the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty"
Hamilton, Federalist No.1, 1787
"necessity of the uniformity in the interpretation of the national laws"
Hamilton, Federalist No.80, 1787
"we, the people of the richest land in the world, have been asleep at the polls too long"
Bonus Army Letter, 1932
"there is no liberty if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislature and executive"
Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws, 1748
"the picture was made for the apple"
Lincoln, Fragment on the Constitution and the Union, 1860s
"of all possible evils that of despotism is the worst"
Centinel I, 1787
"the opinions of the Supreme Court, whatever they may be, will have the force of law"
Brutus XI, 1787
"whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force"
Jefferson, Draft of the KY Resolution, 1798
"the Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes..."
Constitution, Article I, Section 8
"this country and this people seem to have been made for each other"
John Jay, Federalist No. 2, 1787
"it is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America"
Madison, Federalist No.39, 1787
"a common legal question justifies their consideration together in this consolidated opinion"
Brown v Board of Education, 1954
"the Constitution would be reduced to a mere cypher, to the form and pageantry of authority, without the energy of power"
Massachusetts Counter-Resolution, 1798
"the non-attendance of eight or nine men, who were appointed members of the convention, I shall ever consider as a very unfortunate event"
Federal Farmer I, 1787
"found and maintain the sovereignty of the people"
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
"not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a Country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures"
Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, 1791
"full implementation of these constitutional principles may require solution of varied local school problems"
Brown v Board of Education II, 1955
"the people of this State will henceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other states"
SC Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
"addressed more to the feelings and passions, than to the reason and judgment of the army"
Washington, Newburgh Address, 1783
"still lingering in the period of childhood"
Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July Speech, 1852
"the great principle, which lies at the foundation of all free government, is, that the majority must govern"
Clay, Defense of the American System, 1832
"an act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution"
Voting Rights Act of 1965
"that the true construction of that instrument permits a State to retain its place in the Union and yet be bound by no other of its laws than those it may choose to consider as constitutional"
Jackson, Nullification Proclamation, 1832
"to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations"
Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865