Amendments Quote by Crispin Sartwell

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

— Gore Vidal

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our…

— William O. Douglas

Anybody who pretends that how you read the 10th and 11th Amendment doesn't have a fundamental impact on the things we care about is…

— Joe Biden

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second…

— Chuck Norris

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we…

— Benjamin Franklin

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected…

— George Washington

The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts,…

— Ted Cruz

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .…

— Thomas Jefferson

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next…

— Tench Coxe

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson…

— Anthony Kennedy

The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage…

— Barack Obama

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

— Lawrence Lessig