“It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for… — Stephen P. Halbrook Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“The Constitution became even more acceptable to the public at large after the first Congress, responding to criticism, passed a series of… — Howard Zinn 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
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and… — John Adams 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
“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
...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
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
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. — Erwin Griswold 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
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
The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will… — Gray Scott Copy Share Image
We have introduced equity into our life, including a uniform educational system. We have also introduced a Bill of Rights, which is… — Nelson Mandela 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
“They had known it, the patient, stubborn men who for years had argued and written and rephrased and fought over the Constitution… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If I look back, the one thing that I am proud of is that for once I as a political leader, kept… — Frederik Willem de Klerk 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
The Bill of Rights existed long before President Obama was elected, and as long as I’m a U.S. Senator, I will fight… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson 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