The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

OVOXO will always be there.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.