“I hold it to be impracticable”4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights.” — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society. — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way,… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“The American moron’s mind simply does not run in that direction; he wants to keep his Ford, even at the cost of… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of… — Robert H. Jackson 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
I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The… — Smedley D. Butler Copy Share Image
Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such… — James A. Haught 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
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 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
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“With only a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, primarily by eviscerating Fourth Amendment… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises… — Joseph S. Nye Jr 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
“Met a guy named Bill once. We met in Williamsburg and discussed the Bill of Rights and duck’s beaks.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image