“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
“Deists, not religious authoritarians, codified the clear separation of church from state in addition to the division of powers within the state.… — Beth Houston 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
Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of… — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. "The right to freedom… — Cory Doctorow 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
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand,… — Sherman Skolnick 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
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
Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its… — Thomas Jefferson 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
We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“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
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — Anonymous 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
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