Bill of rights Quote by Ted Lieu

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the…

— Laurence Tribe

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 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

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

The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Henry Steele Commager

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted…

— Frank I. Cobb

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

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

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

“We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”

— Bill Maher