14th Amendment Quotes

• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Rights, Government, Rare Occasion

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

  Robert Bork

  Equality, Law, Purpose

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, Citizens, Amendments

  "Donald Trump: 'I have to do right thing' on immigration". Interview with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2015.

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• The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Religious, Court Judges, Law Courts

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• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Angel, Men, Answers

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.156, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

  Arlen Specter

  Protection, Gallery, Amendments

  "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.

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• The 14th Amendment, 2nd Amendment, there's nothing in the Constitution that says that if you are born to an illegal immigrant in America, that you are an American citizen. It's not there. People think it is. They confuse it with being born to an American citizen in America or overseas. But there's nothing in the law, nothing in the Constitution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Law, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

  Antonin Scalia

  Couple, Gay, Amendments

  Antonin Scalia during Supreme Court Arguments on California Gay Marriage Ban, www.npr.org. March 26, 2013.

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• The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens. It never did have anything to do with gay marriage. It was never intended to have anything to do with gay marriage or animal marriage or any other kind of social contract. It was specific to slavery, and after the Civli War.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Gay, Animal

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five executive orders that promote abortion. I support a human life bill that defines unborn children as persons under the 14th Amendment. I will vigorously defend the pro-life plank in the Republican platform.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Order, Law

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• The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

  Ted Cruz

  Father, People, History

  "Cruz: 'Tragic,' 'Indefensible' That Supreme Court Chose to Not Hear Marriage Cases" by Sen. Ted Cruz, www.dailysignal.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

  Mark McKinnon

  Party, Liberty, Legacy

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• These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment, nothing to do with gay marriage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gay, Constitution, Amendments

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The left looks at the Constitution and sees things that aren't there and then they find 'em. They look at things that are there and claim they're not there. Like the Second Amendment, nah, nah, it's not there, they really didn't intend that. No, no. Abortion. You can't find it, yeah, there it is, plain as day, see, it's right there in the 14th Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, the Fifth - no, it's not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Abortion, Second Amendment, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long, Citizens, Way

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• Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is? It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Believe, People

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• There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Anchors, Amendments

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• The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Anchors, Constitution

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• The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Citizens, Defining, Constitution

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• There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically a citizen. It isn't there. Even some of our presidential candidates think that it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Thinking, Presidential

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• I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Second Amendment, Firsts, First Amendment

  Source: latinalista.com

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• I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation by adopting a very narrow view of several provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment. This trend, I believe, if continued, would restrict and could even prevent the Congress from addressing major environmental and social issues of the future.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Issues, Views

  Dianne Feinstein's opening statement at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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