Amendments Quotes · Page 15

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

— Hank Johnson

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

— Harlan F. Stone

The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will…

— Tench Coxe

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate…

— Tom Anderson

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

— Mason Cooley

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not…

— Spencer Bachus

He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice…

— Jeffrey Rosen

And I took a walk and I just went to prayer and I said Lord, what would you have me do in…

— Michele Bachmann

I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.

— John McCain

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

— Nick Rahall

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and…

— James Burgh

My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights…

— Rosalynn Carter

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that…

— Charlton Heston

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

— Thomas Nashe

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically…

— Rush Limbaugh

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by…

— Hugo Black

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

— Fatima bint Muhammad

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...

— Richard Henry Lee

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

— George Mason

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

— Calvin Coolidge

These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by…

— Thomas Jefferson