The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books. — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Elizabeth Holtzman Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“How did we get the 1960s? One is tempted to locate the ideological roots of this era in the 1930s. The expansion… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought,… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment… — David Katz Copy Share Image
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. —Bill Maher” — Wayne Visser Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights. — George Will Copy Share Image
Who gets to decide the robotic bill of rights? It's going to be controversial. — Gray Scott Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
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