Quotes on First Amendment

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

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

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

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

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I'm gonna get mad.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.