Fourth Amendment Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. — Al Franken
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
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
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
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
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
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: