Steve Bannon Quotes

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

I'm an American. I have constitutional rights.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

The Bill of Rights

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

Every citizen has, under the law, a sacred and inviolable right to personal liberty and to the possession of his goods

It is easy to protect the rights to responsible citizens; only a democracy will protect the rights of those who are deemed irresponsible.

Federal courts sit to ensure that individuals are not imprisoned in violation of the Constitution—not to correct errors of fact.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.