First Amendment Quotes

166 quotes by 121 authors

Do the people of this landâ€¦desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendmentâ€¦ If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For… — George Sutherland
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech. — Mitch McConnell
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. — Bryan Fischer
I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that. — Al Goldstein
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the… — William O. Douglas
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to… — Kurt Vonnegut
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and… — Kurt Loder
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech… — Ronald L. Buckwalter
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech… — Stewart Dalzell
There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The… — Eben Moglen
Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch… — Vashti McCollum
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that… — Floyd Abrams
Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free… — Roxane Gay
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions. — Ed Koch
I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation,… — Cass Sunstein
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free… — Ted Cruz
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things. — Ron Paul
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed… — Frances Farenthold
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. — Henry Louis Gates
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to… — Joseph Story

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