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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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Constitution
  • Empathy

• 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
  • Patriotic
  • Principle
  • Admit

• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Difference

• 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

• I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Constitution
  • Our

• 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

• The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Law
  • Universe
  • Moral

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

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Time
  • Judge
  • Matter

• The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• Virtues cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Principle
  • Virtues

• This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Game

• I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Fact
  • Big
  • Complete

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

  

  Erwin Griswold
  • Constitution
  • Principle
  • Bill Of Rights