Constitution Quote by Richard Carlile

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

— Jacob Zuma

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

— Hyman Rickover

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

— C. E. M. Joad

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be…

— Thomas Jefferson

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document,…

— Mike DeWine

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

— Bill Vaughan

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of…

— Henry George

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

— Felix Frankfurter

The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as…

— John Marshall Harlan II

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take…

— William O. Douglas

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

— Lindsey Graham

The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples,…

— Anonymous