First Amendment Quotes

166 quotes by 121 authors

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for… — Hugo Black
The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment… — Hugo Black
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The… — Hugo Black
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the… — Robert Kennedy
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. — Neil Gaiman
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment… — Neil Gaiman
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect -… — Jennifer Granholm
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of… — Alan Dershowitz
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's… — Roger Ebert
The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when… — Roger Ebert
The First Amendment is not without limits. — Jerry Falwell
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a… — Penn Jillette
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you. — Rush Limbaugh
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper. — Michelle Malkin
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he… — Thurgood Marshall
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot. — Michael Nutter
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie

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