Amendments Quotes - Page 16

• This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

  Gore Vidal

  Giving Up, Sky, Religion

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• My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

  Rosalynn Carter

  Disappointment, Years, White

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

  Robert Bork

  Thinking, Always Arguing, People

  "Advocates: Point and Counterpoint, Laurence Tribe and Robert Bork Debate the Framers' Spacious Terms". Miriam Bensimhorn, Life Magazine (Special Issue), Fall 1991.

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• In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment, in order to preserve democracy, and if people start bullying people into fearing that if I say something I could offend people, that is exactly why we have a constitution.

  Harvey Levin

  Country, Bullying, Order

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

  Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

  New York, Father, Hands

  Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

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• Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Common Folk, Evil, Goodness

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah". Book by Fatima bint Muhammad, vol.1, p. 316,

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• Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sorrow, Sin, Repentance

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• To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

  Melville Fuller

  Government, People, Police

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

  Ira Glasser

  Church, Lasts, Firsts

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• If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.

  Rich Galen

  Country, Trying, Different

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• The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Exercise, Government, Law

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• I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Character

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• Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such claims must not be imposed on captive children in government-owned schools. That is prohibited by the separation of church and state, a core principle in the First Amendment in America's Bill of Rights.

  James A. Haught

  Children, Believe, School

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• I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.

  Rand Paul

  Support, Immigration, Language

  "Rand Paul: U.S. Should Stop Granting Citizenship To Children Of Illegal Immigrants" By Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Americans who believe their government should not be a giant ATM, dispensing money and benefits to people who have not earned them, and who want their country returned to its founding principles, must now exercise that power before it is taken from them. The Tenth Amendment is one place to begin. The streets are another. It worked for the Left.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Believe, Taken

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

  Rand Paul

  Government, Firsts, First Amendment

  "Rand Paul’s Presidential Campaign: Five Facts About His Faith" by Kimberly Winston, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2015.

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

  Henry Rollins

  Firsts, Censorship, First Amendment

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• Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Meaningful, Party, Commitment

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• While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy.

  William J. Brennan

  Commitment, Law, Temptation

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• There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of the First Amendment, and people have to understand how important this is. But I think when they see more and more killings, we have to figure out, of course what we are going to do about it. And I don't think the criminal justice system has an answer.

  Chuck Todd

  Thinking, People, Justice

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

  Rand Paul

  Revolution, Fourth Amendment, Fourth

  Rand Paul at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

  Stanley Fish

  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  Orrin Hatch

  Children, Sacrifice, Community

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