And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of… — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining… — John Shattuck Copy Share Image
On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a person that says they invented the podcast and they are suing Adam Carolla, because he is the top of… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large… — John Bright Copy Share Image
We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution… — Nikolai Bukharin Copy Share Image