Constitutional Rights Quotes

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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
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law â€“… — Lee Kuan Yew
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
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
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.

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