« All First Amendment Quotes · Hugo Black's Page
First Amendment Quotes by Hugo Black
- The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest…
- An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
- Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if…
- I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
- The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish,…
- The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for…
- 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…
- 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…
- The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power nor the prestige of the Federal Government would…
More First Amendment Quotes
- The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. — Roy Barnes
- The First Amendment means everything to me. — Julian Bond
- ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne
- 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
- To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan
- Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and… — Spiro T. Agnew
- Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should… — Alan Dershowitz