The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind. — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks. — Fatima bint Muhammad Copy Share Image
When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless. — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
…the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist.… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled… — Pat Swindall Copy Share Image
All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
The First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation… Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which… — William Howard Taft 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
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
Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment. — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
