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First Amendment Quotes

It wasn’t enough that peaceful protesters had just been deprived of their first-amendment rights – this photo-op sought to legitimize that abuse with a layer of religion.

– General John Allen

On order to clear protesters from Lafayette Square before President Trump emerged from White House to stand in front of St. John’s Church and hold Bible aloft.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

– Henry Rollins

The First Amendment is first for a reason – it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

– James Lankford

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

– John Perry Barlow

I’m not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.

– Andrew Breitbart

I’m a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

– Al Goldstein

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

– Calvin Trillin

The First Amendment is very important, but it’s not everything.

– Anthony Lewis

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

– Ernest Istook

I try to do that in this book without preaching – to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

– Floyd Abrams

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I’m not opposed to that.

– Niger Innis

I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.

– Marvin Ammori

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

– Naomi Wolf

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

– Laura Schlessinger

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

– L. Neil Smith

The First Amendment means everything to me.

– Julian Bond

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

– Larry Flynt

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

– Roy Barnes

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

– Salman Rushdie

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that’s fine. That’s what the First Amendment is all about.

– Rich Lowry

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

– Rupert Murdoch

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

– Tom Smothers

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.

– Steve Wozniak

The last thing I saw Gabrielle Giffords do on the floor of the House of Representatives was to line up like the rest of us and read a part of the Constitution. And unbeknownst to her, when she got to the well, her part was the First Amendment.

– Trent Franks

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There’s no First Amendment in my country.

– Tracey Ullman

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

– Terry Bradshaw

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

– Trey Gowdy