Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do? — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think the I.R.S. is a Sword of Damocles over the First Amendment, and I think it is a menace. — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us… — Jim Acosta Copy Share Image
CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain… — Randall L. Stephenson Copy Share Image
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights,… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different… — Alexandra Byrne Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a technology that was both… — James Boyle Copy Share Image
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
At the time, liberals didn't understand that they had First Amendment rights. So, I was doing cartoons in this narrative cartoon form… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“In the Skokie case, it upheld the right of neo-Nazis to parade down the streets of an Illinois town inhabited by Holocaust… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks' disclosures should be protected under the First Amendment. — Amal Clooney Copy Share Image
The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances. — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms. — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights. — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
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