Amendments Quotes · Page 7

I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.

— Dina Titus

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

— John Yoo

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

— Rush Limbaugh

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

— Hugo Black

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

— Joe Biden

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

— Richard Henry Lee

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

— Harlan F. Stone

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

— Larry Flynt

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

— Spencer Bachus

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters…

— David Remnick

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its…

— Dick Thornburgh

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment…

— Dennis Kucinich

...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about…

— Glenn Beck

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

— Donald Trump

Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled…

— Pat Swindall

…the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist.…

— James Traficant

[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk…

— Edward Snowden

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is…

— Robert Reich

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these…

— Tench Coxe

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

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

— Alan Gottlieb

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

— James Madison

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

— William O. Douglas

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment

— Zach Braff

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

— Lindsey Graham

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

— George Will

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

— L. Neil Smith

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

— Henry Louis Gates

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

— Fisher Ames

Hillary Clinton is apparently very happy about [Barack] Obama clamping down on your 2nd Amendment rights.

— Sean Hannity

The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— George Mason

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite

— George Washington

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

— Ron Paul

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

— John Kennedy

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

— Ira Glasser

All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide…

— Wayne LaPierre