What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, it is my duty to uphold the constitutional rights of the American people. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws. — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism.… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“For years he had complained that political leaders were disregarding their sworn duty to safeguard the Mormons' constitutionally guaranteed freedom to worship… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“and they can be prosecuted or sued if they are caught using intentional deception to defraud you into giving up a mere… — James Duane Copy Share Image
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The law is well alive. If one cuts it, it will bleed. Consequently, my only lingering concern is to determine its apposite… — Jerry Boies Copy Share Image
Those who seek to improve our country through peaceful protest and protected speech, I want you to know that your voice is… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“On February 2, 1933, for example, a leading newspaper for German Jews published an editorial expressing this mislaid trust: We do not… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“A number of months ago I read in the newspaper that there was a supreme court ruling which states that homosexuals in… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
“In the United States, the Supreme Court blocked several attempts to levy a federal income tax in the late nineteenth and early… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“We can move to legalize same-gender civil marriage without harming any religious institution or dictating any change to the beliefs and practices… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
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