The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision… — David Boies Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and,… — Gore Vidal 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
You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“You know we do not make such judgments, said Shushu. Business is business. We do not question whether our customers are 'good'… — Garth Nix 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
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and… — George Soros 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
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker 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
The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's… — L. Neil Smith 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
The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The issues that I think matter, that I think resonate with the voters are, No. 1, defending our freedoms, defending the Constitution… — Ted Cruz 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 went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything… — John Mayer 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
I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image