“Corporations haven’t limited their grasp to the First Amendment; pretty much any and virtually every amendment that could be used to further… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
While I unconditionally support the First Amendment, inciting violence against others due to their political affiliation is not constitutionally protected speech. — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed… — Vashti McCollum Copy Share Image
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,… — George Will Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different… — Alexandra Byrne Copy Share Image
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
“2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“[P]olitical speech does not lose First Amendment protection "simply because its source is a corporation". Otherwise, there would be nothing in the… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
And, you know, in my opinion, when the FBI uses these sources, there are a lot of internal guidelines on how they… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
I think the most grievous threat that we have today is this imperialistic judiciary, this judicial monarchy that has it wrong on… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them.… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has enjoined the fight against Obamacare. ERLC leader Richard Land says: “…this issue is not… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
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