The Bill Of Rights Quotes
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I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.
— George Will
The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.
— Robert H. Jackson
People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside ... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
— Diane Hendricks
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
— Glenn Reynolds
No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.
— Daphne Merkin
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
— William O. Douglas
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.
— Ronald Reagan
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
— Mike Quigley
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.
— Rush Limbaugh
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
— Earl Warren
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
— H.L. Mencken
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
— Alexander Hamilton
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
— Erwin Griswold
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
— Harold H. Greene
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities.
Mr Bill Berkowitz — A. J. Jacobs
Mr Bill Berkowitz — A. J. Jacobs
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from ... political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
— Robert H. Jackson
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
— George Soros
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
— Arlen Specter
Society teaches us that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The bill of rights informs us that we have the right to keep it to ourselves.
— Brian Randleas
The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.
— John C. Dvorak
The answer to 1984 is 1776
— Alex E. Jones
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
— Thomas Jefferson
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
— Mario Cuomo
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
— Smedley Butler
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.
— William J. Brennan
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
— John Ashcroft
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
— Adrian Cronauer
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."
— Benjamin Wittes
I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
— Jay Parini
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
— Barney Frank
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.
— Harry Allen Overstreet
Maintaining the balance of power should be as fundamental to American foreign policy as the Bill of Rights is to domestic policy.
— George Friedman
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
— Bill Maher
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
— Roger Rosenblatt
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
— James Madison
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
— Danny Kaye
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
— F. Lee Bailey
The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.
— Antonio R. Damasio
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
— Felix Frankfurter
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
— Bradley A. Smith