Scott Garrett Quotes

People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.

The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant.

Liberty And Union

If, then, we truly believe in the liberty of conscience, speech and press, we must place ourselves again squarely upon the declaration of rights made by our forefathers, and defend the right of others to disagree with us, even about the beneficence of government

As if they could foresee the unforeseeable, the founding fathers laid down principles that have served to prevent the transformation of individual to manipulable quantity, of citizen to subject.

It is inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty, and contrary to the natural rights of the other members of the society, that any body of men therein should have authority to enlarge their own powers, prerogatives or emoluments without restraint

And now, verily I say unto you concerning the ... law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, [that it] belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you ... in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.