First Amendment Quotes
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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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.
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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?
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.
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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.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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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.
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
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I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
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The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.
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I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.
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When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.
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When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.
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It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.
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We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.
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I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
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The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
