Erwin Griswold Quotes

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

Erwin Griswold

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• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Rights
  • Bill Of Rights

• Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Say

• I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Principle
  • Patriotic
  • Admit

• We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Choose
  • Constitution
  • Cast

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Constitution

• Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Government
  • Constitution

• The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Constitution

• We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Men

• The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Evolution
  • Principle
  • Dogma

• My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Principle
  • Convenient

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Being
  • Principle

• The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Art
  • Equality
  • Principle

• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Words
  • Support
  • Trouble

• It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Time
  • Judge
  • Matter

• Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Liberty
  • Constitution
  • Union

• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Constitution
  • Silenced

• Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Constitution
  • Frame
  • Strengthened

• Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Mankind

• Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Laws
  • Principle

• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • State

• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• We just didn't get the clutch hit, but we fought the whole way. We played 27 outs and had our opportunities. It shows the character of this team. We're not giving up.

  

  Carl Everett
  • Character
  • Played
  • Fought

• The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

  

  Erwin Griswold
  • Constitution
  • Principle
  • Bill Of Rights