Aids Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not…

— Alexander Hamilton

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience;…

— Samuel Adams

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all…

— Thomas Jefferson

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

— Antonin Scalia

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

— Thom Hartmann

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

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

— Adrian Cronauer

I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act…

— Barry Goldwater

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson