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Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
— Heather Wilson
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
— Dennis Kucinich
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
— David Strathairn
Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.
— Ann Coulter
Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.
— Phil Cornwell
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
— Coretta Scott King
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
— Ron Paul
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.
— Bryan Fischer
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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
— Harlan F. Stone
You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?
— Christine O'Donnell
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.
— Jerry Holkins
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
— Michele Bachmann
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
— Vladimir Lenin
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.
— Rand Paul
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ...
— Joseph Story
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
— Hank Johnson
There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.
— Joy-Ann Reid
The Second Amendment is not really a right.
— Rosie O'Donnell
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.
— Julian Bond
The First Amendment is not without limits.
— Jerry Falwell
And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms
— Rosie O'Donnell
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
— Larry Flynt
We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
— George Takei
We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.
— William J. Clinton
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
— Robert Bork
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
— Rush Limbaugh
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
— Thomas Jefferson
I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.
— John McCain
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
— Nat Hentoff
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.
— Walter F. Mondale
The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.
— John Longenecker
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.
— John Fugelsang
Before you're allowed to own a .44, your IQ should be higher than .44.
— Quentin R. Bufogle
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
— Al Sharpton
Instead mention your Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, and tell the police that you want a lawyer.
— James Duane
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
— Anthony Lewis
A free people ought ... to be armed
— George Washington
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.
— Mason Cooley
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
— Al Sharpton
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.
— Joseph Story
When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.
— Marshall Sylver
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
— Adrian Cronauer
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
— Hugo Black
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.
— Thomas Jefferson
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression .
— Thurgood Marshall
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
— John Engler
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
— Michael Chabon
I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.
— Dina Titus
The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
— Patrick Henry
The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
— Jerry Yang
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
— George Washington
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
— Erwin Griswold
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.
— Michelle Malkin
The constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
— Alexander Hamilton
The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
— Alan Dershowitz
I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.
— John Barrasso
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
— William O. Douglas
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
— Newt Gingrich
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
— Connie Willis
A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Amendment to live by-J.O.Y.
Jesus first,
Others second,
Yourself last. — Michelle Duggar
Gun registration is not enough.
— Janet Reno
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
— William O. Douglas
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.
— Michael Nutter
It takes a good guy with a gun, to stop a bad guy with a gun (unless the bad guy's a much better shot).
— Quentin R. Bufogle
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
— Peter Camejo
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
— Laurence Tribe
The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!
— Robin Williams
I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.
— Frank Zappa
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
— William Rehnquist