First Amendment Quotes

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

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.

At the time, liberals didn't understand that they had First Amendment rights. So, I was doing cartoons in this narrative cartoon form about subject surrounding that and as I was turned down by editor after editor at each publishing house, I began to notice on their desks this new newspaper called The Village Voice, which I then went and picked up and thought, well my god, these editors that were turning me down all, whom tell me how much they like my stuff, but they don't know how to market it because nobody knows who I am. If I got into this paper, they would know who I am.

That's in the First Amendment?

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

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

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

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.