The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. — Sandra Day O'Connor 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
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 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
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the… — Samuel Ray Cummings Copy Share Image
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick 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
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
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed. — Barack Obama 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 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 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 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
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