Top 88 First Amendment Quotes

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.

I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don’t attend our schools, get married and have children. They don’t vote in our elections.

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.

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don’t lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

Political activity by unions is not wrong. It’s their First Amendment right.

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that’s a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I’m gonna push the boundaries. Some things you’re going to love, and some things you’re going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.

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

Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

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?

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

The Defense Department’s plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you’re going to see an outcry.

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

The First Amendment protects the Internet.

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn’t understand it, he’s never going to understand it.

The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms.

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans’ First Amendment freedoms.

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

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

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like vigor of its citizens and local self-reliance.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

I am a firm supporter of the First Amendment, no matter the views expressed.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

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

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

I’m a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

If we don’t have the ability to keep and bear arms, then who knows when they are going to decide they want to take the First Amendment away from us, or one of the other amendments.

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

It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center’s right to open in Lower Manhattan.

That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

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

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

I believe in the First Amendment.

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.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

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.

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don’t face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

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

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government’s control, and we can be glad that it did.

We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to be an anti-Muslim bigot, on campus or off, CAIR is free to challenge their bigotry by speaking out against the promotion of hatred and intolerance.

Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be ‘offensive’ with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’ every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection.

Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it’s not a beautiful match; it’s not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it’s problematic.

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