Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Henry Steele Commager Quotes: The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.
         

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.


Henry Steele Commager
Check all other quotes by Henry Steele Commager

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Henry Steele Commager Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Fri. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-Bill-of-Rights-was-not-written-649669>.





Check out


Other quotes of Henry Steele Commager


Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.



A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.



Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.



Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.



History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!



Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.



If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.



The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.



History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.



The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.





Other quotes you may like


I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.



A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.



I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.



Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.



There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.



Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.



I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.



I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.



I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.



Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.". Author of this quote is Henry Steele Commager. This quote is about government, trouble, bill of rights, people, protect, mean, rights, trusted, written,.