Amendments Quotes - Page 24

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

  Arlen Specter

  Rights, Important, Today

  "Joining Race, Specter Attacks the Right" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. 1995.

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Usual, Firsts, Quiet

  "The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2011.

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• My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sadness, Humility, Thinking

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• A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  James Madison

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

  James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Grateful, Firsts

  "Muzzling Moore" by Kera Bolonik, www.salon.com. January 7, 2002.

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• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

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• There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

  Rick Santorum

  Bills, Months, Republican

  "Santorum's Health Care Stall Tactic: 'Offer Literally Thousands of Amendments' to Keep Senate in Session for Months". www.mediamatters.org. February 27, 2010.

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• I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

  Michael Nutter

  Thinking, Second Amendment, Firsts

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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

  Eye, Iron, Choices

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• Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Law, Two

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• We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, Secret

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• We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Gun, Hunting

  "Social media abuzz over Piers Morgan vs. Alex Jones" by Josh Levs, Ben Brumfield, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2013.

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• If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

  Larry Flynt

  Needs, Firsts, First Amendment

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• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  Larry Flynt

  Freedom Of Speech, Firsts, Privacy

  "Life, Liberty And Pursuit Of Porn". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 19, 2004.

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• It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Gun, Second Amendment, Trying

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• The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.

  Al Franken

  Rights, Government, Years

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Humorous, Ideas, Passionate

  "Occupy a Wing of the Democratic Party" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Jealous

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• The great object is that every man be armed.

  Patrick Henry

  Father, Gun, Men

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Religious, Government, Today

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, 1992.

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• The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

  Hugo Black

  Security Systems, Government, Views

  Concurring opinion, Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298, 1957.

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• Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Gestation Period, Years, Law

  "The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 297, 1941.

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