Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Justice David Davis, Thomas Paine

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"Emergency does not create power.

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish

the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved.

The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency.

Its grants of power to the federal government and

its limitations of the power of the States

were determined in the light of emergency,

and they are not altered by emergency."

-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes

(1862-1948) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Source: Home Building & Loan Assn v. Blairsdell, 1934

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C...ghes.Quote.4095

 

 

"The Constitution of the United States is a law

for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace,

and covers with the shield of its protection

all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences,

was ever invented by the wit of man than

that any of its provisions can be suspended

during any of the great exigencies of government.

Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism,

but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false;

for the government, within the Constitution,

has all the powers granted to it,

which are necessary to preserve its existence;

as has been happily proved by the result

of the great effort to throw off its just authority."

-- Justice David Davis

(1815-1886) U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1862-1877

Source: Ex parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866) DAVIS, J., Opinion of the Court

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/D...avis.Quote.5879

 

 

"It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing

the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact

between those who govern and those that are governed:

but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before

the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed,

there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist,

and consequently there could originally exist no governors

to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the

individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right,

entered into a compact with each other to produce a government:

and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise,

and the only principle on which they have a right to exist."

-- Thomas Paine

(1737-1809)

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/T...aine.Quote.8124