The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
My view is that we have the Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and in this country my view is that we… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive. — Steve Clevenger Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas… — Fred M. Vinson Copy Share Image
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with… — Morris Sheppard Copy Share Image
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law. — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people… — Ruben Aguilar Copy Share Image
Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will.… — Crispin Sartwell Copy Share Image
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People that believe in the Second Amendment and believe in it very strongly were very upset with what Hillary Clinton had to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. — Anonymous Copy Share Image