Robert Byrd Quotes & Sayings
19 most famous Robert Byrd quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American politician who passed away on 28 June, 2010.
“One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.”
“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.”
“To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.”
“We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.”
“This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.”
“Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.”
“It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'”
“It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.”
“Congress is not an ATM.”
“I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.”
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