Framers Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created… — Elihu Root
[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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. — Walter E. Williams
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
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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