Herbert Croly Quotes

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power.

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

The Constitution of the United States is not a suicide pact.

I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be central and the parties must be peripheral.

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

The Constitution is simply a sign that says “keep off the grass.”

The Constitution was essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental rights of private property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.

The Constitution of the United States [is] the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

The whole point of the Constitution is to limit at some point and in some way popular will.

The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

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 government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.