Quotes About The Fourth Amendment

#1. He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice Scalia and Justice Alito about do you need a physical trespass into the home or onto the carriage in order to trigger the values of the Fourth Amendment.

Jeffrey Rosen

#2. When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

Dana Priest

#3. I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment, number one, and what customers and business partners expect around the world from secure computing systems. And it's a difference of view.

Rod Beckstrom

#4. The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

Barton Gellman

#5. Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

Rand Paul

#6. The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more unreasonable than searching the private phone records and digital information of citizens who are suspected of nothing.

Ben Shapiro

#8. The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

Ron Paul

#9. Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process.

Ray McGovern

#10. The Patriot Act has practically obliterated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. It was supposed to be temporary, but there are so many things that the Government likes about the power that it gives, they keep renewing it.

Kenneth Eade

#11. The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

Ilana Mercer

#12. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Al Franken

#13. No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

Peter Camejo

#14. 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

#15. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over!

Rand Paul

#16. It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

William O. Douglas

#17. Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Anthony Kennedy

#18. I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

John Wooden

#19. The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

David James

#20. I can't wait for this to come out in October!

Dan Brown

#21. nobody ever finds
the one

Charles Bukowski

#22. Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Robert Mondavi

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Blake Lewis

#24. Besides, what is human consciousness if not a data stream? A means for human beings to harvest information and interpret the world around them?

Pippa DaCosta

#25. If you can see a cop in your rear view mirror - no matter how far back the cop is - TURN! The sooner you turn the better. Your goal while driving should be to never let a law enforcement officer into a position where he can pull you over. Don't even let them come close enough to read your tag.

Ian Tinny

#26. If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.

Herb Brooks

#27. If a parent does not know how to love and nurture a child while he is young, especially black boys, that child will grow up out of balance mentally, therefore feeling inferior.

Daniel Whyte III

#28. Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

John Milton

#29. All human beings err, but they err frequently and in predictable, patterned ways.

Atul Gawande

#30. I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing.

Bill Maher

#31. The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

Rand Paul

#32. A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Shirley Manson

#33. I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.

Mark Valley

#34. I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

Haruki Murakami

#35. Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

John Ashcroft