Amendments Quotes · Page 7

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

— Noah Webster

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

— Ken Buck

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

— Byron White

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

— Donald Trump

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

— Henry Wilson

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

— Christine O'Donnell

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

— Massad Ayoob

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the…

— Ronald Reagan

I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first…

— Harry S. Truman

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives…

— Muhammad Yunus

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

— Mitch McConnell

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you,…

— Hillary Clinton

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.

— Rush Limbaugh

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some…

— Jennifer Granholm

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship…

— Hugo Black

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that…

— William O. Douglas

Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and…

— Chuck Norris

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those…

— Charlton Heston

Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of…

— Samuel Alito

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we…

— Hillary Clinton

It's really easy for someone to say no one should have guns when they're guarded by people with MP-5s. It's a little…

— Sean Hannity

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First…

— Kurt Loder

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire…

— Cesare Beccaria

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

— Ted Nugent

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

— Nat Hentoff

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

— Mary Cheney

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

— Rush Limbaugh

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

— Donald Trump

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

— William Anthony Donohue

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Mason Cooley

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

— Donald Trump

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

— Thomas Jefferson

The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

— George Washington

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

— Chuck Todd

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our…

— Michael Chabon

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

— Julian Assange