Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

The government is merely a servant?merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.