Cory Gardner Quotes

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

The right of petition belongs to the people of the United States. Slaves are not people in the eye of the law. They have no legal personality

There is a citizenship of the United States, and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each other, and which depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the individual.

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

I'm a civilian, a citizen.

Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.

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

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

A corporation, we have held, is not a "citizen," within the meaning of the privileges and immunities clause … But a corporation is a "person" within the meaning of the equal protection and due process of law clauses.

The Civil Rights Bill affords the blacks an equal right, nothing more ... to make and enforce contracts [etc.] ... It merely provides safeguards to shield them from wrong and outrage and to protect them in the enjoyment of the right to exist

The Equality of the Citizens consists in this; that they should all be subject to the same Laws.

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized at any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of its general or implied grants of power.

Whatever is a privilege rather than a right, may be made dependent upon citizenship.

To the beloved Republic under whose equal laws I am made a peer of any man, although denied political equality by my native land. [Scotland]

We have no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Permissive legislation is the characteristic of a free people.

The Habeas Corpus Act is the most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny.