American people Quote by Frank I. Cobb

The Bill of Rights is a remarkable document because it weaves into the fabric of our democracy the idea that government has a responsibility…

— Ted Lieu

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

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

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

The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of…

— Walter Lippmann

Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free…

— Wayne LaPierre

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to…

— Henry Steele Commager

“As my father once explained to me, our “rights” are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people’s…

— George Takei

“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy to place them beyond the…

— Robert H. Jackson

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that…

— Roger Rosenblatt

I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards…

— Hugo Black