Amendments Quote by William J. Brennan

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters…

— William Rehnquist

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

“It is actually a policy issue relevant to the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. The First Amendment was founded on…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas,…

— Thurgood Marshall

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

— Anthony Lewis

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply…

— William J. Brennan

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

The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in…

— Potter Stewart

“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 First Amendment exists to protect controversial speech, not speech we love that ruffles no feathers.”

— Megyn Kelly

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

— Samuel Alito

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

— Edward Kennedy