Bill of rights Quote by Anonymous

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to…

— Henry Steele Commager

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it,…

— Harry Browne

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered…

— Samuel Ray Cummings

Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free…

— Wayne LaPierre

The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

— Jason Laumark

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Jacob G. Hornberger

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list…

— L. Neil Smith

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

— Mike Quigley

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used…

— William O. Douglas