Bill Of Rights Quotes
100 Bill Of Rights quotes by 77 unique authors
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
— F. Lee Bailey
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from…
— William J. Brennan
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
— Smedley Butler
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We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and…
— Carl Sagan
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government…
— Harry Browne
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What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the…
— Harry S. Truman
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of…
— William J. Clinton
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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...…
— Frank I. Cobb
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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and…
— Robert H. Jackson
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The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.…
— Walter Lippmann
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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
— H. L. Mencken
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our…
— Earl Warren
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against…
— Hugo Black
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The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.
— Ted Nugent
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When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to…
— William J. Clinton
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It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be…
— Unknown Author
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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
— Antonin Scalia
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Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people…
— Unknown Author
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The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate,…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
— Thomas Jefferson
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