Amendments Quotes
359 quotes by 251 authors
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I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people…
— Michele Bachmann
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking…
— Michael Badnarik
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The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
— Roy Barnes
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right…
— Bob Barr
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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy…
— Judy Biggert
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The First Amendment means everything to me.
— Julian Bond
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The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
— William J. Clinton
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and…
— Thomas Aquinas
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government…
— Harry Browne
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
— Ronald Reagan
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest…
— Hugo Black
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility…
— Ronald Reagan
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To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just…
— Ronald Reagan
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I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason…
— George W. Bush
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When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
— Antonin Scalia
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Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right…
— Alan Dershowitz
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