The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and… — Matt Welch 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
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby. They made him… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Yet, more is at stake in this debate beyond simply acknowledging the religious inclinations of those people involved in the nation’s founding.… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Let us have it plain: my society is comprised of metal-worshipers. They pray to metal, are owned by metal, and metal uses… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it… — Stephen Halbrook Copy Share Image
“Tea Party Patriots, Inc., as an organization, believes in Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Tea Party Patriots, Inc. is… — Mark Meckler Copy Share Image
“DEAR DIARY You are greater than the Bible And the Conference of the Birds And the Upanishads All put together You are… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“When I sit up I am greeted by the world. Level with the treetops I look down on sparrows swooping in and… — Daniel Hays Copy Share Image
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else,… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. — William O. Douglas 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
“Society teaches us that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The bill of rights informs us that we have the right… — Brian Randleas Copy Share Image
If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“…the very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
It is past time for the federal government to establish an Unhoused Bill of Rights and make the desperately needed investments to… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the… — Samuel Ray Cummings Copy Share Image
If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on. Happily… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“since 1886, the Bill of Rights has been explicitly applied to corporations. Perhaps most astoundingly, no branch of the U.S. government ever… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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