To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution. — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him… — Joseph Sobran 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
“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The… — Harry V. Jaffa Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler 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
“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — Abraham Lincoln 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
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison 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
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
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