Amendments Quote by Frances Farenthold

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

— David Mamet

The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something…

— John Kiriakou

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established…

— Laura Sydell

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should…

— Joichi Ito

I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not say something.…

— G.W. Sok

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The…

— Anthony M. Kennedy

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

— Ann Coulter

In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment, in order…

— Harvey Levin

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment,…

— Floyd Abrams

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First…

— Hugo Black

Government censorship of speech with which it disagrees not only violates the First Amendment, but is antithetical to the American system, which posits that…

— Bill Hagerty