Constitutionally Protected Quotes

#1. For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

Potter Stewart

#2. The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Phyllis Schlafly

#3. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#4. The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Calvin Trillin

#5. The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

Janet Napolitano

#6. Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Francis G. Slay

#7. We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Paul Broun

#8. Duke says, "Pause," and the movie goes quiet. "What did Laila say?

Kasie West

#9. If he's like a lot of men, he'd rather be a murderer than a fool.

Tom Robbins

#10. It belongs to an Uptown attorney. What a horse's ass. Thinks he's so smart. He doesn't know the difference between piss and perfume. I'll have fun returning that to him. Maybe I'll drop by his house at dinnertime.

Ruta Sepetys

#11. I was collecting Barbies. I know ... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#12. As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

Barack Obama

#13. The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

John Milton

#14. SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

William H. McRaven

#15. And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

John Green

#16. Now that I'm older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you'll ever land

Mona Eltahawy

#17. I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Josh Lucas

#18. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Mary Oliver

#19. Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Victor Hugo

#20. True love comes from the heart and not from the words.

Auliq Ice

#21. People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

Zosia Mamet