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First Amendment Quotes by Thurgood Marshall
- The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression .
- 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…
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