Constitutional Order Quotes

To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

The law, the will of the majority expressed in orderly, constitutional methods, is the only king to which we bow.

Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.

As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.

The system we have is one that protects my rights under a president I don't approve. That tomorrow we'll do the same for you. And what people have in common is their commitment to those shared rules. And if you have someone who was a challenger to the shared rules, that's unacceptable. And we've never seen that before. Not in a long, long time but we see it now.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

We want to bring order and respect for the constitution.

As a party, we do not want to destabilise any government.