“It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second. — Jerry Holkins Copy Share Image
The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise… — Ronald L. Buckwalter Copy Share Image
“I believe in the right to offend. To insult. Even to horrify. It’s not that we’re supposed to enjoy it; it’s that… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something… — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image
The First Amendment does not extend to corporations. It's a U.S. government thing. Companies can shut speech down all they want. But… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the phrase “separation of church and state” appears in no official founding document, then what is the source of that… — David Barton Copy Share Image
In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they… — Mohammed Saeed Harib Copy Share Image
“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Congress would later find that though bureau officials undertook COINTELPRO in the name of national security, its purpose was “preventing or disrupting… — Seth Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from… — Rory Edwards Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak. — Jeff Bewkes Copy Share Image
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
Political activity by unions is not wrong. It's their First Amendment right. — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
