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
Our administration is committed to protecting individuals' constitutional rights and ensuring Virginians are safe. — Glenn Youngkin Copy Share Image
As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due… — Nat Hentoff 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
What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights. — Matthew Dowd 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
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
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
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
[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
Under the guise of protecting people's health and safety, we have seen the erosion of our constitutional rights, and seen our justice… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the… — Pete Stark Copy Share Image
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That… — Frank Hague Copy Share Image
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose,… — Orrin Hatch 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
“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
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 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
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
I think what Republicans want is someone who will stand up and lead, who will take on the great challenges of the… — Ted Cruz 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
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
“In the United States, the Supreme Court blocked several attempts to levy a federal income tax in the late nineteenth and early… — Thomas Piketty 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
“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
“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
“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
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We can move to legalize same-gender civil marriage without harming any religious institution or dictating any change to the beliefs and practices… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image