Amendments Quotes

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

— Alan Dershowitz

That's in the First Amendment?

— Christine O'Donnell

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

— Ed Case

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

— Donald Trump

A strong body makes the mind strong.

— Thomas Jefferson

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.

— Rush Limbaugh

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

— Patrick Henry

I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.

— Tim Kaine

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

— Adrian Cronauer

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

— Donald Trump

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

— Joseph Story

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.

— Rudy Giuliani

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

— Ted Cruz

The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

— Herb Kelleher

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

— Thomas Jefferson

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional…

— Nick Rahall

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should…

— Chuck Todd

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Gore Vidal

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and…

— Bill Shuster

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution…

— Noam Chomsky

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the things I'm gonna do and I have tremendous support with the evangelicals and with the Christians and with everybody,…

— Donald Trump

That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not…

— Hugo Black

That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the…

— James Madison

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners -…

— Alan Gottlieb

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

I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still…

— Jim Jarmusch

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the…

— John Paul Stevens

In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment,…

— Harvey Levin

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our…

— Anonymous

Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with…

— David Swanson

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored…

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First…

— Jeffrey Tayler

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

The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is…

— Calvin Coolidge

We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters…

— Jonathan Karl