--- title: "4 Bill of rights Quotes By Thom Hartmann" description: "4 Bill of rights quotes by Thom Hartmann. Plus more from Thom Hartmann and more Bill of rights sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ba/thom-hartmann-13946_bill-of-rights_her-crime-cost-nobody-their-life-but-she_259437.png" --- > [“Her crime cost nobody their life, but she famously was escorted off to a women’s prison. Had she been a corporation instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/her-crime-cost-nobody-their-life-but-she-famously-was-escorted-off-to/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ba/thom-hartmann-13946_bill-of-rights_her-crime-cost-nobody-their-life-but-she_259437.png) > [“But Hamilton lost the day, Jefferson won, and we have a Bill of Rights built into our Constitution that, as Hamilton feared,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/but-hamilton-lost-the-day-jefferson-won-and-we-have-a-bill-of-rights/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/thom-hartmann-13946_bill-of-rights_but-hamilton-lost-the-day-jefferson-won_1911763.png) > [“I hold it to be impracticable”4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/i-hold-it-to-be-impracticable-4-to-try-to-define-it-or-any-right/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/thom-hartmann-13946_bill-of-rights_i-hold-it-to-be-impracticable-4-to-try-t_2487303.png) > [“since 1886, the Bill of Rights has been explicitly applied to corporations. Perhaps most astoundingly, no branch of the U.S. government ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/since-1886-the-bill-of-rights-has-been-explicitly-applied-to/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/thom-hartmann-13946_bill-of-rights_since-1886-the-bill-of-rights-has-been-e_3107966.png) ## Other authors on Bill of rights - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-j-clinton-95571.jpg) William J. Clinton 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/william-j-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-h-jackson-79812.jpg) Robert H. Jackson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/robert-h-jackson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rand-paul-77216.jpg) Rand Paul 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/rand-paul/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nat-hentoff-70269.jpg) Nat Hentoff 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/nat-hentoff/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alan-buckley-10272.jpg) Hugo Black 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/hugo-black/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-maher-17979.jpg) Bill Maher 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/bill-maher/) ## More by Thom Hartmann > [In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/in-the-24-hours-since-this-time-yesterday-over-200-000-acres-of/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“Traditional English, Dutch, French, and Spanish law didn’t say that corporations are people. The U.S. Constitution wasn’t written with that idea; corporations aren’t mentioned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/traditional-english-dutch-french-and-spanish-law-didn-t-say-that/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/blessings-are-the-spiritual-equivalent-of-breathing-in-and-prayer-is/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate marketing, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/2003-case-before-the-supreme-court-in-which-nike-claimed-that-it-had/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human beings, “natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/the-constitution-doesn-t-give-us-rights-it-restrains-government-from/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/many-people-i-ve-met-believe-that-plants-are-made-up-of-soil-that-the/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“Her crime cost nobody their life, but she famously was escorted off to a women’s prison. Had she been a corporation instead of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/her-crime-cost-nobody-their-life-but-she-famously-was-escorted-off-to/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/black-friday-in-reality-is-a-symptom-of-the-plight-that-30-years-of/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“So we now know the formula for extinction. Something happens to increase global temperatures five to six degrees, which triggers a melting of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/so-we-now-know-the-formula-for-extinction-something-happens-to/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/when-the-europeans-first-arrived-in-north-america-the-average-depth/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“And so we see people who are spiritually disconnected, living in boxes and driving in boxes, perhaps once a year going "out to nature"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/and-so-we-see-people-who-are-spiritually-disconnected-living-in-boxes/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“in previous decades a chemical company took to the Supreme Court a case asserting its Fourth Amendment “right to privacy” from the Environmental Protection…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/in-previous-decades-a-chemical-company-took-to-the-supreme-court-a/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“the Occupy Movement flared up and began setting up tents in public parks all around the nation, from New York City to Chicago to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/the-occupy-movement-flared-up-and-began-setting-up-tents-in-public/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [ Because nitrous oxide \[released by nitrate-fertilised soil\] is 296 times stronger than COâ‚‚ at global warming and methane \[cow farts\] is about 26 times… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/because-nitrous-oxide-released-by-nitrate-fertilised-soil-is-296/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) > [“Both Jefferson and Adams were wary of priests in all forms, as they both knew theocracies are enemies of democracy. Jefferson pointed out that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-hartmann/both-jefferson-and-adams-were-wary-of-priests-in-all-forms-as-they/) [Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-hartmann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-of-rights/thom-hartmann/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bill of rights Quotes By Thom Hartmann", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Her crime cost nobody their life, but she famously was escorted off to a women’s prison. Had she been a corporation instead of a human being, odds are there never would have even been an investigation. 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