27 Quotes About Constitutional-rights

To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate.

If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.

Any every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. Massachusetts Constitution.

The constitutional right of today may be a violation of human rights tomorrow, hence, no constitution, and in fact, no text is to be taken as gospel… they must be scrutinized by each new generation and if found incompatible with the new society, must be either amended or discarded altogether.

If you treat the constitution the same way fundamentalists treat the bible, you are going to have a very sick society on your hands.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.