Bill of rights Quote by Walter Lippmann

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

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

— Laurence Tribe

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 is a remarkable document because it weaves into the fabric of our democracy the idea that government has a responsibility…

— Ted Lieu

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

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights…

— Albert Gallatin

Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one…

— Harry Browne

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 neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes…

— Lyman Trumbull

“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy to place them beyond the…

— Robert H. Jackson