Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 839 Constitution quotesConstitution QuotesConstitution Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.~ Bill Clinton When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.~ Bill Clinton If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers ... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.~ Frank I. Cobb The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.~ Frank I. Cobb The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the "high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and 'is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.~ Cockrum v. State We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.~ William S. Cohen Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.~ Henry Steele Commager Lawyers are being graduated from our law schools by the thousands who have little knowledge of the Constitution. When organizations seek a lawyer to instruct them on the Constitution, they find it nearly impossible to secure one competent.~ Committee on American Citizenship Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.~ Connecticut Constitution The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.~ Constitution for the United States We the People of the united States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.~ Constitution for the USA In all criminal cases whatsoever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.~ Indiana Constitution Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms; and this right shall never be questioned.~ Maine Constitution The people have a right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. And as, in times of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the Legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the Civil authority, and be governed by it.~ Massachusetts Constitution Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.~ Michigan Constitution The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons.~ Montana Constitution Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes.~ Nevada Constitution All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.~ New Hampshire Constitution Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print