Amendments Quote by Hugo Black Download Open image “I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.” — Hugo Black ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amendments Belief Believe First amendment Firsts Government I believe Language Lasts Liberty Mean
The first amendment is freedom of speech of what you believe in, if you speak something its your right to say what you feel… — Jenny The Jawbreaker Copy Share Image
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music. — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. — George Will Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image