Amendments Quote by Harlan F. Stone Download Open image “The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.” — Harlan F. Stone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amendments Rights States Truism
No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The… — Jed Babbin Copy Share Image
If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption'… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
The 10th Amendment is very clear about what the federal government's role is. — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid… — Rich Galen Copy Share Image
The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Anybody who pretends that how you read the 10th and 11th Amendment doesn't have a fundamental impact on the things we care about is… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image