Bill of rights Quote by Dominic Grieve

In general, I don't think that economic, social and cultural rights are primarily a matter of going to court. They are most useful today…

— Mary Robinson

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

— Byron White

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on…

— Thomas Jefferson

Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on…

— Richard Henry Lee

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered…

— William Rehnquist

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government…

— Thomas Jefferson

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the…

— Laurence Tribe

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws…

— Thomas Paine

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while…

— John Garamendi

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it,…

— Harry Browne