“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”– William O. Douglas Related Quotes “A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.”– James Reston “The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.”– Diane Abbott “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”– Thomas Jefferson