First Amendment Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  David Remnick

  Thinking, Rights, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

  Warren E. Burger

  Long, Risk, Speech

  "Open The System, Don't Close It" by Edward H. Crane, www.cnn.com. November 25, 1996.

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

  Robert Bork

  Government, Firsts, Amendments

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

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Use, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Writing

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.

  Thomas Pogge

  Practice, Political, Promise

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Christian, Religious, Firsts

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• It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Teacher

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1083, Best Books on

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Matter

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• The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Firsts

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

  Erica Jong

  Children, Government, Self

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

  Roy Moore

  Scary, Alabama, Firsts

  "Donald Trump's Potential Supreme Court Nominees Could Concern Conservatives" by Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. February 15, 2016.

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• The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

  Joseph Story

  Christian, Religious, Firsts

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• The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.

  Pat Swindall

  Christian, Religious, Ghetto

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• The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.

  Tina Fey

  Party, Groups, Burning

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• For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Country, Patriotic, Government

  "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• The First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans - the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize fake news, and criticize it strongly.

  Donald Trump

  Giving, Fake, Mind

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.

  Mohammed Saeed Harib

  Country, Giving, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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

  Steve Daines

  Exercise, Rights, Speech

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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

  Speech, Firsts, Amendments

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• Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.

  Bobby Jindal

  Work, Health, Sacrifice

  "The Silent War on Religious Liberty". Bobby Jindal's Remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, officeofgovernorbobbyjindal.createsend1.com. February 13, 2014.

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Ghetto

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

  Pat Swindall

  Christian, Religious, Firsts

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• For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment.  Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

  John Bonifaz

  Rights, Years, Citizens United

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