Amendment Quotes

422 quotes by 291 authors

I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms. — Rudy Giuliani
It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't… — Rudy Giuliani
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than… — John Dryden
What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where… — Wayne LaPierre
With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair… — Rob Portman
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing… — Alan Gottlieb
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States… — Theodore Roosevelt
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole… — Saint Francis de Sales
We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that there is a… — Erwin W. Lutzer
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
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state… — Hugo Black
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for… — Hugo Black
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
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The… — Hugo Black
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the… — Robert Kennedy
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. — Al Franken
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The… — Al Franken
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. — Neil Gaiman
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment… — Neil Gaiman

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