History Quote by Potter Stewart

This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common…

— Joseph Story

For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is…

— Potter Stewart

The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today…

— Ron Paul

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

— Peter Camejo

Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep…

— John Ashcroft

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

— George W. Bush

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But…

— Tim Cook

...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the…

— Harry Browne

“The protection guaranteed by the Amendments is much broader in scope. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit…

— Louis D. Brandeis

The Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of us all - from ordinary citizens up to candidates for president. If we allow this precious right…

— Kayleigh McEnany

We all have a constitutional right to be safe in our homes and our communities.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the…

— Harry A. Blackmun