Committed Quote by George Mason

When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be…

— Edward Snowden

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge…

— Rand Paul

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and…

— Edward Coke

“There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored…

— Tom Bingham

“Using general warrants, British soldiers were allowed to enter private homes, confiscate what they found, and often keep the bounty for themselves. The policy…

— Radley Balko

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

— Potter Stewart

Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we…

— Radley Balko

Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions…

— A. P. Herbert

“Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny (royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...); who cannot show that they have performed…

— Hilary Mantel

It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order…

— Felix Frankfurter

“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;…

— Mark Twain

“It was the deployment of British soldiers to colonial cities strictly for the purpose of enforcing the law that set long-smoldering hostilities aflame. Using…

— Radley Balko