Amendment Quotes

422 quotes by 291 authors

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. — Newt Gingrich
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect -… — Jennifer Granholm
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a… — Angela Davis
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of… — Alan Dershowitz
We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no… — Alan Dershowitz
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to… — William O. Douglas
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's… — Roger Ebert
The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when… — Roger Ebert
The First Amendment is not without limits. — Jerry Falwell
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken. — Betty Ford
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a… — Penn Jillette
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation,… — Barbara Jordan
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. — Rush Limbaugh
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you. — Rush Limbaugh
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then… — Rush Limbaugh
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper. — Michelle Malkin
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that… — Thurgood Marshall

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