One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

History proves that all dictatorships all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings mankind has not devised anything superior.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

In the rush to become all things to all people the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.