The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be…

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The…

— Alan Dershowitz

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

— Gore Vidal

The First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans - the…

— Donald Trump

Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction…

— Lewis F. Powell, Jr

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

— Laura Schlessinger

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

— Newt Gingrich

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

— Anonymous

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result…

— Fred M. Vinson

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the…

— John Bonifaz

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom…

— Alan Dershowitz

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

— Mitch McConnell

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their…

— Salman Rushdie

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

— Lawrence Lessig

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The…

— Anthony Kennedy

Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be…

— Kat Timpf