Constitution Quote by Antonin Scalia

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

— Francis Hutcheson

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for…

— Lysander Spooner

We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited.

— Bob Menendez

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

— David Greenberg

The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary act, and…

— Ron Dellums

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

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

— Anonymous

Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or…

— Herb Kohl

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

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

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

— Jason Laumark