Quotes About 10th Amendment

#1. Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

Barry Goldwater

#2. If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Dick Thornburgh

#3. I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

Mitt Romney

#4. I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts..

Rand Paul

#5. Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

Dick Thornburgh

#6. Anybody who pretends that how you read the 10th and 11th Amendment doesn't have a fundamental impact on the things we care about is kidding themselves. They're either uninformed or they're kidding themselves.

Joe Biden

#7. Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Anne Bradstreet

#9. Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Cassandra Clare

#10. The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

William James

#11. You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.

Horace