I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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, 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
The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
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 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
“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and… — Deborah K. Ross Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people… — Pat Swindall Copy Share Image
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will.… — Crispin Sartwell Copy Share Image
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public,… — Pete Wilson Copy Share Image
“He stepped back, cursing. "Hey, haven't you heard of the First Amendment? You jerk!" The security guard, still gunning like a mad… — Catherine Coulter Copy Share Image
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image