Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

Rule of law has prevailed over Obama's unconstitutional executive overreach.

I believe in enforcing the laws as written by the Legislature, as signed by the governor.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

The most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my Presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of government

No branch of government should ever be able to combine the power of the sword with the power of the purse.

The Supreme Court has acted as the final barricade against the assaults of democratic majorities.

The President cannot refuse to enforce a law simply because he does not like it.

If a commanding General finds a necessity to seize the farm of a private owner, for a pasture, an encampment, or a fortification, he has the right to do so, and to so hold it, as long as the necessity lasts; and this is within military law, because [it is] within military necessity. But to say the farm shall no longer belong to the owner, or his heirs forever; and this as well when the farm is not needed for military purposes as when it is, is purely political, without the savour of military law about it. And the same is true of slave

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.

We can't give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.

The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional watchdog.

The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President can't just bypass two branches of government, and obey only those laws he wants to obey.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.