quotes about First Amendment
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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 ***** 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 -
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
-- Ernest Istook -
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
-- Larry Flynt -
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
-- Nat Hentoff -
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 is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
-- Robert Bork -
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The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.
-- Trey GowdySource : "Congressman Trey Gowdy On Leaks: ‘I Thought All Reporters Aspire’ To Go To Jail" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.
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That's in the First Amendment?
-- Christine O'DonnellSource : "Media Twist O’Donnell-Coons Exchange on Church and State". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. October 19, 2010.
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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.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
Trump was so different - in a bad way - that I thought the best thing I could do was to resist him. And that's because he was attacking the institutions of our democracy, from the First Amendment and the free press to the judiciary. He was stifling internal dissent, and then he was making false and misleading statements routinely. And to me, that's what takes us down the road to authoritarianism and that's why I decided to start resisting him.
-- Ted Lieu -
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False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.
-- Roy MooreSource : "Front-Runner For U.S. Senate Seat In Alabama Calls Islam A ‘False Religion" by Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2017.