Amendments Quote by Frank Zappa

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it…

— James E. Rogers

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

— Nat Hentoff

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right?…

— Tony Judt

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

— Jill Stein

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to…

— Anthony Foxx

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 first amendment gives us the liberty of expression, of religion, and assembly. Sometimes we don't like what people have to say, but that's…

— Ruben Diaz Sr

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be…

— Howard Zinn

The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.

— Wayne LaPierre

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

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open…

— Hugo Black

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

— Samuel Alito