Words matter. These are the best Bill Of Rights Quotes from famous people such as John Kennedy, John Delaney, James Bovard, Gray Scott, Bradley A. Smith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.
As a cosigner of the Veterans’ Bill of Rights, I’m committed to making sure that veterans’ issues remain a top priority in Congress.
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
Who gets to decide the robotic bill of rights? It’s going to be controversial.
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
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, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
The right to marry is vital in society. It’s a right that’s older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of constitutional writing. The Petition of Right of 1628, like the Bill of Rights of 1689, was a cherished text. So, most of all, was Magna Carta.
When you start talking about the patients’ bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don’t know is how are you going to pay for it.
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
A federal Voters’ Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
The Patients’ Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It’s a part of the overall health care picture.
Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of the press. These are enshrined. And yet, freedom of the press has been curtailed.
People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.
I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator’s Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator’s Bill of Rights – in an issue of ‘The Comics Journal,’ if I’m not mistaken – I accepted it as gospel.
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.
Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not ‘privatize’ religion and quarantine it from the public square.
We have a list of human rights – right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
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.
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy – so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator’s Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.
Under Marxism-Leninism, the self-proclaimed ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, individuals do not possess inherent value. People are merely a tool to achieve the ends of the collective nation-state. The idea may sound inhumane, but it is as fundamental to the CCP as the Bill of Rights is to Americans.
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?
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.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the Human Rights Act does, in fact, offer appropriate protection to all of our citizens according to universally accepted standards.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
I’m a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don’t think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.