Abuse Quote by Roger Pilon

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very first amendment.…

— Jonathan Karl

Bill of Rights was Madison, I'm going with Madison.

— Tim Kaine

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

“And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They’re explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government.…

— Thom Hartmann

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that…

— Robert H. Jackson

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those…

— Richard Henry Lee

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony

The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was…

— Ayn Rand