Amendment Quotes

422 quotes by 291 authors

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions… — Cliff Stearns
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat… — Potter Stewart
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense. — Cass Sunstein
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is… — Jimmy Swaggart
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said. — Laurence Tribe
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First… — Calvin Trillin
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. — Elwyn Brooks White
If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is… — George Will
When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed. — George Will
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery. — Robin Williams
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. — Naomi Wolf
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were… — Naomi Wolf
The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in… — Bob Woodward
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's… — Steve Wozniak
The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank.… — Muhammad Yunus
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. — Thomas Jefferson
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I… — Michael Moore
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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