Amendments Quotes

359 Amendments quotes by 245 unique authors

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tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.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
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. — Rush Limbaugh
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts… — C.S. Lewis
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I… — Libba Bray
The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because… — Mark Levin
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction… — Thomas Jefferson
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. — John Perry Barlow
I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems. — Sharron Angle
It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress… — Sharron Angle
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often… — Benjamin Franklin
How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen,… — Suzanna Hupp
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments.… — Henry Rollins
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or… — Elliott Abrams
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their… — Russ Feingold
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality… — Ed Smith

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