Constitution Quote by Alberto Gonzales

Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

— Jason Laumark

“We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state… Somehow it is always…

— Niall Ferguson

The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are…

— Noah Webster

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

— William Henry Harrison

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

— Grover Cleveland

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms…

— Thomas Jefferson

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

— Earl Warren

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the…

— Caleb Cushing

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it…

— Joseph Story

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

— David Mamet