Amendment Quotes

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

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.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

Gun registration is not enough.

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.