First amendment Quotes · Page 2

“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

— Kirsten Powers

“2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate…

— Thom Hartmann

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a…

— Charlton Heston

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a…

— Ronald Reagan

“I'm a conservative but not because I care very much about the marginal tax rates of the richest Americans, rather I'm a…

— Ben Sasse

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't…

— Laszlo Radvanyi

If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or…

— Michael Copps

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states,…

— Sam Ervin

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

— Jeanine Pirro

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First…

— Howard Zinn

“I’m pretty sure most of them sincerely believe that the First Amendment actually means they can say anything they want without consequences.…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

— David Remnick

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

— Pat Swindall

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

The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of…

— Warren E. Burger

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible…

— Anthony Kennedy

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

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights…

— John Bonifaz

We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films,…

— Molly Ivins

At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],…

— Joseph Story

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the…

— Michael Moore

The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school…

— William J. Brennan

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the…

— Alan Dershowitz