Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

Laws are silent in time of war.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I think governments can’t do much.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Due process should matter.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

I love being in a courtroom.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

We’re talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.