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Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
— Ernest Istook
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.
— Bryan Fischer
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
That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.
— Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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.
— James E. Rogers
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.
— Rand Paul
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.
— Rush Limbaugh
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.
— Rush Limbaugh
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
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
— Henry Louis Gates
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
— Larry Flynt
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
— Mitch McConnell
The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.
— Pat Swindall
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
That's in the First Amendment?
— Christine O'Donnell
The First Amendment ... begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
— George Will
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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 spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.
— Ann Coulter
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
— Arlen Specter
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
— Rupert Murdoch
The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
— James Lankford
The First Amendment means everything to me.
— Julian Bond
Is any blogger out there saying anything - do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.
— Lindsey Graham
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
— William O. Douglas
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 Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
— Jerry Yang
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
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
— Hugo Black
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'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.
— Michael Nutter
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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
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
— Rush Limbaugh
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
— Robert Bork
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
— E.B. White
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.
— Joseph Story
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
— Anthony Lewis
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
To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.
— William Anthony Donohue
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
— Seneca The Younger
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
— John Perry Barlow
