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title: "17 Constitution Rights Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 17 Constitution Rights quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Constitution Rights sayings and thoughts."
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> [You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dreyfuss/you-ve-got-to-protect-the-system-of-secular-faith-in-the-constitution/)

[Richard Dreyfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dreyfuss/)

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> [The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-griswold/the-right-to-be-let-alone-is-the-underlying-principle-of-the/)

[Erwin Griswold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erwin-griswold/)

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> [I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-am-in-favor-heartily-in-favor-of-our-constitution-and-bill-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claudette-colvin/when-our-founding-fathers-drafted-the-constitution-and-bill-of-rights/)

[Claudette Colvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claudette-colvin/)

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> [If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-norris/if-the-citizens-of-the-united-states-are-to-turn-away-from-the/)

[Chuck Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-norris/)

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> [And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-walpole/and-therefore-for-the-sake-of-my-mater-without-any-regard-for-my-own/)

[Robert Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-walpole/)

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> [I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-also-wish-that-the-pledge-of-allegiance-were-directed-at-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-franken/the-founders-who-crafted-our-constitution-and-bill-of-rights-were/)

[Al Franken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-franken/)

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> [Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niger-innis/join-america-taught-english-an-understanding-of-the-u-s-constitution/)

[Niger Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niger-innis/)

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> [My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/my-mine-is-based-on-the-fact-that-bill-clinton-has-done-and-i-m-this/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

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> [People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesse-ventura/people-in-this-country-need-to-understand-when-you-go-to-any-airport/)

[Jesse Ventura](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesse-ventura/)

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> [The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/the-declaration-of-independence-the-constitution-and-the-bill-of/)

[Russell Freedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-freedman/)

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> [Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/calvin-coolidge/numbered-among-our-population-are-some-12-000-000-colored-people/)

[Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/calvin-coolidge/)

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> [The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-o-douglas/the-constitution-and-the-bill-of-rights-we-designed-to-get-the/)

[William O. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-o-douglas/)

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> [In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-taft-benson/in-these-sacred-documents-are-embodied-eternal-principles-that-no-man/)

[Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-taft-benson/)

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> [In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-halbrook/in-recent-years-it-has-been-suggested-that-the-second-amendment/)

[Stephen Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-halbrook/)

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> [I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-biden/i-believe-all-americans-are-born-with-certain-inalienable-rights-as-a/)

[Joe Biden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-biden/)

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                        "text": "People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.",
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                        "text": "The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meaningful way, you have to bring in the roles of African Americans - the enslaved blacks - and the roles of women, who were scarcely acknowledged by those documents. You have to discuss why slavery wasn't outlawed by the Constitution, why women weren't given the votes. The Bill of Rights isn't about dead white males anymore, and it's not just about live white males either; it's about every minority group that exists.",
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                        "text": "Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.",
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                        "text": "The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.",
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                        "text": "In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here is our basis for freedom of individual achievement. Our Constitution with its Bill of Rights guarantees to all our people the greatest freedom ever enjoyed by the people of any great nation. This system guarantees freedom of individual enterprise, freedom to own property, freedom to start one's own business and to operate it according to one's own judgment so long as the enterprise is honorable.",
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                        "text": "In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the \"collective\" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of \"the people\" to keep and bear arms... If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.",
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                        "text": "I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity...",
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