Quotes About The 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. I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

Mitt Romney

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.

Barack Obama

#6. The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

Girolamo Savonarola

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

Frances Hardinge

#10. I wandered in the darkness looking for something better, something real. I found you, and I'll be damned if I'm going to lose you.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. Power should be given only to those who earn it

Veronica Roth

#12. I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Vikas Swarup

#13. He so must have male PMS. And it really does exist 'cause I glanced at an article about it online once.

Lindy Zart

#14. The timely dew of sleep.

John Milton