Amendments Quote by William O. Douglas

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

The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That…

— Hugo Black

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or…

— Ayn Rand

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

— Henry Rollins

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

— Penn Jillette

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

— Thomas Jefferson

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 fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If you truly hate censorship then you will defend anyone that is unfairly censored. Everyone deserves their legal rights, even when they disagree with…

— C.A.A. Savastano