Amendments Quotes - Page 29

• When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews, a religious group. But if the religious group is the subject of the persecution based on their religion, it's perfectly OK for a First Amendment-bound society to emphasize their rescue, just as it is perfectly OK to emphasize the fact that many, if not all of the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism, come from countries with a history of supporting terrorism.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Religious, War

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it's the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan.

  Big Boi

  Mean, Hunting, Government

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• All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five executive orders that promote abortion. I support a human life bill that defines unborn children as persons under the 14th Amendment. I will vigorously defend the pro-life plank in the Republican platform.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Order, Law

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• The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Moving, Government, One Day At A Time

  "Steven Spielberd & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, Lincoln". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 30, 2018.

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• The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.

  Tina Fey

  Party, Groups, Burning

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• No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same must be true of the Second.

  Jed Babbin

  Rights, People, Firsts

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• 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

  Believe, College, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Responsibility, Essentials, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Alaska, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Giving, Firsts

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• When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

  George Will

  Merit, Should, Taxes

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• Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

  Matt Taibbi

  Minorities, Bills, Lawmakers

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.20, Black Cat

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• The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

  Bob Schaffer

  Gun, Government, People

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• Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.

  David Swanson

  Country, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

  Tom Anderson

  Children, Government, Income

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• If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

  Thomas Woods

  Taken, Government, Liberty

  Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (2004). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History”, p.26, Regnery Publishing

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• When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

  Tim Freeman

  Gun, Collecting Things, Drug

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• The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys [politicians] up there.

  Suzanna Hupp

  Gun, Hunting, Ducks

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• The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, Citizens, Questionable

  "Donald Trump: 'I have to do right thing' on immigration". Interview with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2015.

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• The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.

  Potter Stewart

  Writing, Men, Expression

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• You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Use, Answering Questions, Fifth Amendment

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• It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

  John Shattuck

  Exercise, Dark, Rights

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• I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.

  David Frum

  Russia, Littles, Way

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• We are going to save our Second Amendment.

  Donald Trump

  Second Amendment

  "Will Hillary be able to corral Bernie's supporters?; Carson on why GOP should unify behind Trump". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2016.

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• Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments to the (US) Constitution....To be insensitive to the very fundamental civil liberties....(:) the choice...of the person whose body is being ravaged (by disease), is to display slight understanding of the essence of our free society and its constitutional underpinnings.

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Dark, Essence, Choices

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