Against Quote by Tim Wise

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

— Potter Stewart

The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities, to conduct 'stop…

— Michelle Alexander

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

— William O. Douglas

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

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the…

— William J. Brennan

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

— Jeanine Pirro

Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency programs prove.

— Ben Shapiro

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

— Eric Greitens

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same…

— John Dingell

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same…

— John Dingell

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

— Potter Stewart