Amendment Quotes
422 quotes by 291 authors
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right…
— Anthony Kennedy
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It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.
— Jack Valenti
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And I took a walk and I just went to prayer and I said Lord, what would you have me do in the Minnesota state…
— Michele Bachmann
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Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be redefined by activist judges. For the good of families, children…
— George W. Bush
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It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.
— Al Gore
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A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life…
— Thomas a Kempis
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If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as…
— Dick Thornburgh
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The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.
— Thomas Jefferson
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My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun…
— Alex Kozinski
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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day…
— William O. Douglas
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That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state…
— James Madison
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This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the…
— George Washington
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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
— Harlan F. Stone
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The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
— William Rehnquist
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And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms
— Rosie O'Donnell
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The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
— Julian Bond
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It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
— David Strathairn
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The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.
— Ann Coulter
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They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the…
— Ann Coulter
Who Wrote These Amendment Quotes
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