Amendment Quotes
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The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.
Nat Hentoff -
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren
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I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
Dan Webster -
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt -
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Ed Case -
In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
Rand Paul -
They're likely to win, because the courts are increasingly interpreting advertising speech as something that's covered by the First Amendment.
Marion Nestle -
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.
Sam Ervin
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Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment.
Donald Trump -
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis -
Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.
Eliot Spitzer -
From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
Alan Page -
All of us are sympathetic to the class-size amendment. But each university has classroom needs, too.
J. M. Roberts -
The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.
Benedict Joseph Labre
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Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.
Eleanor Smeal -
During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
George Bernard Shaw -
Donald Trump is a staunch believer in the Second Amendment.
Sean Hannity -
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
Fatima bint Muhammad -
I believe in the soul, the ****, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Crash Davis -
We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
Nat Hentoff
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Certainly, there's a possibility of an amendment, that's something we're looking at.
Jack Straw -
I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.
Nat Hentoff -
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.
Milo Yiannopoulos -
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
Mike Simpson