Constitutional Rights Quotes - Page 3

• Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Memories, Freedom

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• If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Law, Rights

  Legislative Assembly Debates, September 21, 1955.

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• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Rights, Offending, Law

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• A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Rights, People, Stories

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

  Abe Fortas

  Teacher, Rights, Expression

  Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

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• My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Rights, House, President

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• People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Should Have, Rights

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed, he gives a speech after the San Bernardino attack where his approach is to try to go after the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens rather than to keep us safe.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Rights, Law

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Opportunity, Order, Rights

  "De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365". Judicial opinion, 1937.

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• We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

  Rand Paul

  Black And White, Rights, Liberty

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I think what Republicans want is someone who will stand up and lead, who will take on the great challenges of the day, who will make the case that the path we're on isn't working; that the Obama-economy is a disaster, that Obamacare is a trainwreck, that our constitutional rights are under assault and that we need to restore America's leadership in the world.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Thinking, Rights

  "Potential Bush bid sways none in GOP field" by Deirdre Walsh, Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2014.

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• We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Rights, People

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Exercise, Gun, Law

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Children, Law, Rights

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights.

  Zachary Quinto

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

  Bernard Kerik

  Rights, Citizens, Pay

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• Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Rights, Arena, Individual

  Speech at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee - and got thrown off of it, by the way, for wanting to deny Richard Nixon his constitutional rights.How does a woman who has become a fixture in northeastern liberal politics find herself in the backwoods of Arkansas?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Careers, Rights, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The period of my service will depend on two conditions. Firstly, of course, there are rules stipulated by the Constitution, and I surely will not infringe them. But I am not sure whether I should take full advantage of these constitutional rights. It will depend on the specific situation in the country, in the world and my own feelings about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Two, Rights

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment, number one, and what customers and business partners expect around the world from secure computing systems. And it's a difference of view.

  Rod Beckstrom

  Thinking, Rights, Views

  "The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

  Kalle Lasn

  Rights, Fiction, Corporations

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• But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, People, Use

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.

  Bobby Seale

  Running, Rights, Railroads

  Bobby Seale, United States. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) (1972). “United States of America, plaintiff-appellee, v. Bobby G. Seale, defendant-appellant: appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division ...”

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