Amendments Quotes · Page 6

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

— Fatima bint Muhammad

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

— Donald Trump

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

— Keith Ellison

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

— Robert Bork

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

— Corrine Brown

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

— Frank Zappa

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 has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not…

— Hugo Black

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and…

— L. Neil Smith

The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying…

— Alan Keyes

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

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of…

— Francis Bacon

They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big…

— Ann Coulter

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm.…

— Jim Bridenstine

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but…

— Suzanna Hupp

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen's Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says…

— L. Neil Smith

I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never…

— Adolf Hitler

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment…

— Joseph Sobran

People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational…

— John Hickenlooper

To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general…

— Melville Fuller

I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes…

— Cass Sunstein

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual…

— Arlen Specter

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much…

— Frank Chodorov

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels…

— Kevin Costner

Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints,…

— Bobby Jindal

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the…

— John Harvey Kellogg

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions…

— William Rehnquist

In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it…

— Stephen Halbrook

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

Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is…

— Antonin Scalia

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

— Adrian Cronauer

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

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

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

— David Strathairn