Citizens Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them…

— Edmund Spenser

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

— Marquis de Lafayette

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

— Henry David Thoreau

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their…

— John Marshall

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

“You Must Explicitly Invoke Your Constitutional Rights”

— James Duane

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument…

— Andrew Johnson

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to…

— Aristotle

“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected…

— Tony Judt