Constitution Quote by Walter E. Williams

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

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely…

— Edward Snowden

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human beings, “natural…

— Thom Hartmann

The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

— Jason Laumark

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the…

— Roger Pilon

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

— Thom Hartmann

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

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

— Roy Moore

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

— Al Franken

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

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