Amendment Quote by Anthony Lewis Download Open image “The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.” — Anthony Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amendment Everything First First amendment Important Very
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody,… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
The first amendment gives us the liberty of expression, of religion, and assembly. Sometimes we don't like what people have to say, but that's… — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones… — Rod Lurie 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 also important… — Langdon Brown Gilkey 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 as they… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same… — Robert Shapiro 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 printing anti-American… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon… — Gabriel E. Gomez Copy Share Image
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
