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First Amendment Quotes by George Will
- The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
- The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting…
More First Amendment Quotes
- To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan
- The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not… — Hugo Black
- When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan
- The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that… — Charlton Heston
- The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy
- First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony Kennedy
- The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob. — Ann Coulter
- It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the… — Floyd Abrams