Amendments Quotes

359 Amendments quotes by 245 unique authors

When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I… — Unknown Author
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway… — Bob Schaffer
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our… — Suzanna Hupp
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses… — Alex Kozinski
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm… — William Rawle
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for… — Don Kates
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument… — Morris Sheppard
It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This… — Jimmy Carter
Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from… — Unknown Author
We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against… — Michele Bachmann
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we… — Kurt Vonnegut
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because… — William J. Brennan
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
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting… — Alexander Hamilton
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state… — James Madison
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison

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