First amendment Quotes · Page 2

The First Amendment protects the Internet.

— Raymond Kethledge

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

— Larry Flynt

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

— Jeanine Pirro

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

— George Washington

Political activity by unions is not wrong. It's their First Amendment right.

— Eugene Scalia

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

— Trey Gowdy

I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

— Andrew Breitbart

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

— Jeff Bewkes

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

— Walter F. Mondale

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

[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

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

— Anonymous

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First…

— Connie Sellecca

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection…

— William J. Clinton

The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like…

— Ben Sasse

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and…

— Roy Moore

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

— Noam Chomsky

What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there…

— Sam Ervin

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

— Anthony Kennedy

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and…

— Spiro T. Agnew

Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of…

— Kent Hovind

If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something…

— Richard S. Salant

Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think the most grievous threat that we have today is this imperialistic judiciary, this judicial monarchy that has it wrong on…

— Scott Pruitt

Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them.…

— Mathew Staver

“Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but…

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

“The tendency to want what has been banned and therefore to presume that it is more worthwhile is not limited to such…

— Robert B. Cialdini

“Congress would later find that though bureau officials undertook COINTELPRO in the name of national security, its purpose was “preventing or disrupting…

— Seth Rosenfeld

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of…

— William O. Douglas

“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when…

— Denise Duhamel

In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they…

— Mohammed Saeed Harib

“Yet, if the phrase “separation of church and state” appears in no official founding document, then what is the source of that…

— David Barton

I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from…

— Rory Edwards

Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.

— Scott Pruitt

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

— Rand Paul

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

— E. B. White

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

— Ernest Istook

It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.

— Jerry Holkins