He Value Of The Constitution Depends On The Good Will Of Government Itself.

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• The most important question in the study of government is 'how can we prevent government from going berserk and killing off half the population?
  ' -- John Kormylo...
• I have a feeling that at any time about three million Americans can be had for any militant reaction against law, decency, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, compassion and the rule of reason.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
  Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net....
• Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty.
  We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written....
• I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• No matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme court follows th' iliction returns.
  -- Mr. Dooley...
• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
  -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10. (Bill of Rights)...
• In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dolla
  he right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law....
• The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitutio
  either is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence....