Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.... Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what wor...ds meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolute."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with ...civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the... State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just gov...ernment should refuse, or rest on inference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a Bill of Rights a security for [religious liberty]? If there were but one sect in America, a Bill of Rights would be a small p...rotection for liberty.... Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elem...ents which compose the nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of s...uch far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main,... This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons never shall be slaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »