Constitutional Rights Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
— James Bovard
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Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own…
— William O. Douglas
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Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify…
— Mathew Staver
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[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all…
— Albert Einstein
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I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two…
— Muhammad Ali
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The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I…
— Stephen Colbert
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Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy…
— Paul Robeson
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The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional…
— James Lafferty
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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human…
— Gerrit Smith
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The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of…
— Isham G. Harris
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Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
— Abe Fortas
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If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or…
— Harlan F. Stone
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You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a…
— Frank Hague
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Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
— Roger Wicker
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing;…
— Ted Olson
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My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal…
— Ronald Reagan
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Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
Who Wrote These Constitutional Rights Quotes
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