Amendments Quote by L. Neil Smith Download Open image “As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.” — L. Neil Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amendments First amendment Firsts Media Protected Should
In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've told town hall participants and reporters in the media that we can protect the Second Amendment and also protect people's lives. — Eric Swalwell Copy Share Image
The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys… — George Will Copy Share Image
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Rather than reporting the violation of basic rights, our media generally preferred to mindlessly indulge the inherently salacious interest we have in other people’s… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“...occasionally I like carrying raw steel to remind myself of an important lesson. The blade's an extension of the hand, the agent--no pun intended--of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the… — L. Neil Smith 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
