I have led amendments to protect and grow our domestic manufacturing and to establish a parents' bill of rights to make sure… — John E. James Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them,… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen's Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I believe we can have common sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment, and, in fact, what I have proposed… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution. — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know,… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded. — Pat Swindall Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
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