I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the… — Rod Beckstrom Copy Share Image
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
“On February 2, 1933, for example, a leading newspaper for German Jews published an editorial expressing this mislaid trust: We do not… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, it is my duty to uphold the constitutional rights of the American people. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“For years he had complained that political leaders were disregarding their sworn duty to safeguard the Mormons' constitutionally guaranteed freedom to worship… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A number of months ago I read in the newspaper that there was a supreme court ruling which states that homosexuals in… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed,… — Ted Cruz 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
It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws. — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that we can protect our people without undermining our constitutional rights and I worry very, very much about the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image