As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“the First Amendment exists to protect controversial speech, not speech we love that ruffles no feathers.” — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
If we don't have the ability to keep and bear arms, then who knows when they are going to decide they want… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“It is actually a policy issue relevant to the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. The First Amendment was… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“Out of two different and distinct traditions, Jennifer and Zachary have come together to learn the best of what each has to… — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a technology that was both… — James Boyle Copy Share Image
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“From gun shows, where they openly promote their product by imploring customers to buy “while you still can,” to homegrown militias who… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry. — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind. — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
The First Amendment right to religious liberty should withstand the test of an illegal vaccine mandate. — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing. — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel. — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
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