First Amendment Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

That's in the First Amendment?

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

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

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.