This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment,… — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
It's a free country, man. Freedom of speech is the first amendment. But when you are talking business and being a role… — Mike Perry Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
“Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has enjoined the fight against Obamacare. ERLC leader Richard Land says: “…this issue is not… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure most of them sincerely believe that the First Amendment actually means they can say anything they want without consequences.… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
By revoking the ability for social media providers to be considered publishers, we ensure that they can no longer manipulate social media… — George Santos Copy Share Image
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes… — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the… — Andrew Ford Copy Share Image
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
![“This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil…” quote by Butch Otter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b4b/butch-otter-62570_abiding_this-anti-terrorism-bill-is-a-violation_936812.jpg)
![“In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment, in order to preserve democracy, and if people start bullying people into fearing that if I say something I could offend people, that is exactly why we have a constitution.” quote by Harvey Levin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/573/harvey-levin-62730_amendments_in-this-country-the-usa-you-have-got-to_2347504.jpg)
![“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential nature." [ Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (1963)]” quote by Thomas Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a43/thomas-emerson-282924_beliefs_every-man-in-the-development-of-his-own_469388.jpg)
