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First Amendment Quotes by William O. Douglas
- The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
- Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day…
- 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…
- The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
- But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
- Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be…
- The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers…
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
- 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
- (W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. — Sandra Day O'Connor
- 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