Allen West Quotes

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

[Describing the Republican Party:] ... the party of memory

I am a Republican. But I am not running on the Republican platform. I'm running on my own platform. I stand for the Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln.

In a Madisonian system, it is often more important how you do something than what you do.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights. But the reason that I reject the label is that I grew up cutting my teeth against the liberals.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.