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The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both. -- David Mamet
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech? -- Rob Kampia
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. -- Roxane Gay
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The First Amendment is not without limits. -- Jerry Falwell
The First Amendment means everything to me. -- Julian Bond
I want to regain my First Amendment rights. -- Laura Schlessinger
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. -- John Perry Barlow
The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. -- Roy Barnes
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. -- Seneca the Younger
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything. -- Anthony Lewis
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution. -- Samuel Alito
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. -- Trey Gowdy
I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. -- Henry Rollins
The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last. -- Ira Glasser
Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment. -- Larry Flynt
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment. -- Roy Moore
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. -- L. Neil Smith
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. -- Henry Louis Gates
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. -- Bryan Fischer
Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment. -- Chuck Todd
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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising. -- Jerry Yang
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually. -- Robert Bork
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government. -- Rand Paul
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade. -- Dennis Kucinich
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. -- Rush Limbaugh
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind. -- Mike Godwin
Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. -- Ron Paul
The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. -- George Will
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. -- John Yoo
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive. -- Steve Clevenger
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. -- Larry Flynt
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob. -- Ann Coulter
The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances. -- Keith Ellison
When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless. -- Marshall Sylver
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second. -- Jerry Holkins
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you. -- Rush Limbaugh
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact. -- Nat Hentoff
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress. -- Joseph Story
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. -- Walter F. Mondale
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. -- Arlen Specter
That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet. -- Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. -- Ernest Istook
I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment. -- Andrew Breitbart
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. -- William O. Douglas
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says. -- Hugo Black
To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion. -- William Anthony Donohue
Is any blogger out there saying anythingâ??do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times. -- Lindsey Graham
I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. -- Frank Zappa
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. -- E. B. White
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action. -- Julian Bond
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action -- Julian Bond
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. -- Rush Limbaugh
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot. -- Michael Nutter
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech. -- Mitch McConnell
The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded. -- Pat Swindall
I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution. -- Roy Moore
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I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that. -- Al Goldstein
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment. -- Julian Assange
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. -- Ronald Reagan
[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public? -- Phil Donahue
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. -- Jack Valenti
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. -- Michael Chabon
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper. -- Michelle Malkin
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . -- Thurgood Marshall
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. -- Naomi Wolf
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. -- Hugo Black
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy. -- Jill Stein
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
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. -- Ron Paul
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. -- Ed Koch
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. -- William O. Douglas
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. -- Salman Rushdie
No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government. -- Anthony Foxx
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. -- Pat Swindall
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. -- Chuck Todd
I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith. -- Ted Cruz
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. [Progressive] -- Hugo Black
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There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle ... -- Andrea Dworkin
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. -- Stanley Elkin
They're Democrats 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. -- Ann Coulter
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. -- Bobby Jindal
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. -- Tracey Ullman
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. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
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. -- Stewart Dalzell
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. -- Fred M. Vinson
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! -- Michael Moore
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. -- George Will
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. -- Don Feder
I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage. -- Bobby Jindal
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. -- Sam Ervin
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. -- Nat Hentoff
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! -- Jack Kemp
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. -- Laura Sydell
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. -- Dahlia Lithwick
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. -- Robert Bork
The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise--the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions. -- Alan Keyes
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company. -- Steve Wozniak
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. -- Henry Rollins
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. -- Jennifer Granholm
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. -- Hugo Black
You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote. -- James E. Rogers
When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy. -- Tim Cook
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." -- Jennifer M. Granholm
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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. -- Bernie Sanders
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. -- Floyd Abrams
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts. -- Bill Maher
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. -- Charlton Heston
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. -- Larry Flynt
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom. -- William J. Brennan
People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit. -- Jonathan Zittrain
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. -- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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