Amendment Quotes

I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

In the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, it's not about target shooting, it's about protecting your home and your family and your life.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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.