Fourth Amendment Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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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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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
— William O. Douglas
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Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and…
— John Ashcroft
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When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I…
— Tim Freeman
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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without…
— Anthony Kennedy
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The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping…
— Elizabeth Holtzman
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No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
— Peter Camejo
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For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not…
— Potter Stewart
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The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the…
— Ron Paul
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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.
— Al Franken
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The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The…
— Al Franken
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new…
— Dana Priest
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The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more…
— Ben Shapiro
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The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W.…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a…
— Barton Gellman
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Brandon McCaw did a PowerPoint Presentation around 500 billion people and being recorded for 5 hours and 30 minutes. He says the Railroad Labor Executives…
— Brandon McCaw
Who Wrote These Fourth Amendment Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Fourth Amendment Quotes as follows: