For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the… — Andrew Ford Copy Share Image
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
By revoking the ability for social media providers to be considered publishers, we ensure that they can no longer manipulate social media… — George Santos Copy Share Image
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes… — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A justice is not like a law professor, who might say, 'This is my theory... and this is what I'm going to… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
“each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.” The abortion mandate firestorm isn’t dying down – and it shouldn’t. This is government overreach at… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I had been the drummer for the Grassroots, it probably wouldn't have cut me to the core when I heard John… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment,… — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
It's a free country, man. Freedom of speech is the first amendment. But when you are talking business and being a role… — Mike Perry Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“University Life" bureaucrats are teaching the next generation of young Americans that the First Amendment is not a guarantee of constitutional rights;… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I think the president, very simply, has never read a copy of the Constitution. I think that that's true. He's just never… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Trump's ICE has adopted a policy of guilty until proven innocent with immigrant New Yorkers, disappearing New Yorkers from their homes without… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
![“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential nature." [ Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (1963)]” quote by Thomas Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/thomas-emerson-282924_beliefs_every-man-in-the-development-of-his-own_469388.jpg)
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![“In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment, in order to preserve democracy, and if people start bullying people into fearing that if I say something I could offend people, that is exactly why we have a constitution.” quote by Harvey Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/harvey-levin-62730_amendments_in-this-country-the-usa-you-have-got-to_2347504.jpg)
