Framers Quotes
43 quotes by 31 authors
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the…
— Hugo Black
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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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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating…
— William O. Douglas
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against…
— Walter E. Williams
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Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written…
— Thurgood Marshall
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If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived…
— William J. Brennan
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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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The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created…
— Elihu Root
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[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.
— Fisher Ames
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The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of…
— Walter E. Williams
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It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but…
— Walter E. Williams
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For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took…
— David Berlinski
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...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by…
— Robert E. Lee
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It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress…
— Robert Byrd
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It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally…
— Robert C. Maynard
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My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to…
— Patrick Henry
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If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
— Walter E. Williams
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The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of…
— Barry Goldwater
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The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be…
— Dahlia Lithwick
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