Amendment Quotes

422 quotes by 291 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state… — James Madison
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
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." — William Rehnquist
And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms — Rosie O'Donnell
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action — Julian Bond
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both. — David Strathairn
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob. — Ann Coulter
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

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