Amendments Quote by Barry Goldwater

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined…

— Dick Thornburgh

“The Tenth Amendment recognizes the States' jurisdiction in certain areas. States' Rights means that the States have a right to act or not to…

— Barry M. Goldwater

The 10th Amendment is very clear about what the federal government's role is.

— Doug Burgum

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states'…

— Robert Kennedy

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

— Harlan F. Stone

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington…

— Thomas Woods

No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The…

— Jed Babbin

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder