And some other timely quotes:
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
— President Donald Trump, 15 Feb 2025
“Up till now, no one in the United States has dared to profess the maxim that everything is allowed in the interests of society, an impious maxim apparently invented in an age of freedom in order to legitimize every future tyrant.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
— President Donald Trump, 23 Jul 2018
“What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.”
— President Donald Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, 2 Jan 2021
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
— President Donald Trump, 3 Dec 2022
President Trump should “immediately declare a limited form of Martial Law, and temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections”
— Retweet by Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, 1 Dec 2020
“I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”
— Elon Musk, 7 Feb 2025
“Ours is a government of laws and not of men.”
— John Adams
“In all governments whatsoever, meanness will cling to strength, and flattery to power. And I know of only one way of preventing men from degrading themselves, namely, not to give anybody that omnipotence which carries with it sovereign power to debase them.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“I accord institutions only a secondary influence on the destiny of men. Would to God I believed more in the omnipotence of institutions! I would have more hope for our future, because by chance we might, someday, stumble onto the precious piece of paper that would contain the recipe for all wrongs, or on the man who knew the recipe. But, alas, there is no such thing, and I am quite convinced that political societies are not what their laws make them, but what sentiments, beliefs, ideas, habits of the heart, and the spirit of the men who form them, prepare them in advance to be, as well as what nature and education have made them.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“[W]hen the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
— Vice President J.D. Vance, 17 Sep 2021
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
— James Madison, Federalist No. 47
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the [courts] to say what the law is.”
— Marbury v. Madison, 1803
“Conservatives should be confident that [in retaking the White House in 2025] we can … reclaim our culture.”
— Project 2025
“Culture and the state - one should not deceive oneself over this - are antagonists: the ‘cultural state’ is merely a modern idea … All great cultural epochs are epochs of political decline.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche