Amendment Quotes
Amendment Quote of the day
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.
The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.
The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.
All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.
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 Amendment was designed for tyranny.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
