Bill of rights Quote by Antonin Scalia Download Open image “A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.” — Antonin Scalia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bill of rights Bills Constitution Liberty Majority Mean Mean Worthless Means Majority Rights Rights Means Want Worthless
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights… — Albert Gallatin Copy Share Image
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives. — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy to place them beyond the… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea?… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction. — Antonin Scalia 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 allowed this… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ.… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“manager’s bill of rights,” those basic things that you have a right to expect from your employees. Responsible employees: Are responsive to feedback Keep… — Erika Andersen Copy Share Image
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason - Father of the Bill of Rights” — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought, the function… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the… — Sami Al-Arian Copy Share Image
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
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