What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The Democrats have made no secret of wanting to unilaterally infringe upon the Constitutional rights of the American people to keep and… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Our administration is committed to protecting individuals' constitutional rights and ensuring Virginians are safe. — Glenn Youngkin Copy Share Image
I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism.… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I will continue to work with state and federal partners to protect our state's values, and to uphold legal, ethical and moral… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
“The law is well alive. If one cuts it, it will bleed. Consequently, my only lingering concern is to determine its apposite… — Jerry Boies Copy Share Image
The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples… — Jello Biafra 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
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table… Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights. — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights. — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image