Charles Tupper Quotes

Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond the Constitution.

The Constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

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.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Let us contend for all the rights guaranteed by the constitution of our native country.

The Bill of Rights was not ordained by nature or God. It's very human, very fragile.

The rights given in the Constitution are given to all people—the most popular and the least popular.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

You may say to the people, that I have received their petition. You may remind them, also, that I am acting in accordance with the constitution. It is necessary for me to defend those rights of mine that are guaranteed by that constitution, even at the sacrifice of everything that I possess, and of my own person.

There is no good behavior clause in the Constitution.

The Bill of Rights is one of the greatest documents of freedom ever devised in human experience. It is of particular importance to those who have been the victims of oppression.

Any delay in action protecting constitutional rights is justice denied.

Rights that depend on the sufferance of the State are of uncertain tenure.

All government and all private institutions must be designed to promote and protect and defend the integrity and the dignity of the individual. And that is the essential meaning of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

Constitutional rights must always come before sensitivities.