Abridging Quotes
- Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. — Thomas Jefferson
- Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for… — Marc Rotenberg
- I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it.… — Abraham Lincoln
- The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting… — George Will
- The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment… — Hugo Black
- Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — Ayn Rand
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the… — Henry George