The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George -… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
I think [Louis] Brandeis challenges all of the current justices. As he said, "If we would guide by the light of reason,… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities… — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,… — George Will Copy Share Image
Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how,… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Elizabeth Holtzman Copy Share Image
The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very best possible to secure their own liberty and independence,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
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![“The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e88/barack-obama-17_framers_the-framers-in-their-wisdom-designed-the_1888418.jpg)
![“I think [Louis] Brandeis challenges all of the current justices. As he said, "If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold." You have to take the values that the framers were concerned about and translate them into this new age.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/273/jeffrey-rosen-13180_age_i-think-louis-brandeis-challenges-all-of_1537636.jpg)
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![“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly…” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba9/george-mason-8435_2-amendment_when-the-resolution-of-enslaving-america_844300.jpg)
