Amendments Quotes - Page 31

• The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

  William O. Douglas

  Military, Men, America

  24 Copy quote

• ...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.

  Glenn Beck

  Sports, Gun, Hunting

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Mean, Law, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

  Mike Godwin

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Groups, Doe

  Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.

  Tom Coburn

  Alaska, Islands, Bridges

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Party, Writing

  6 Copy quote

• Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

  Roxane Gay

  Ideas, Freedom Of Speech, Lines

  12 Copy quote

• .......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

  James Traficant

  Politics, Truth Is, Hiding

  10 Copy quote

• In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

  Ken Buck

  Careers, Political, Balanced

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  Ja Rule

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

  Arlen Specter

  Protection, Gallery, Equal

  "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Political, Want

  7 Copy quote

• I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

  Cass Sunstein

  Believe, Gun, Hunting

  48 Copy quote

• I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I am ­­ I don't know if Hillary was saying it in a sarcastic manner, but I'm very proud to have the endorsement of the NRA. And it's the earliest endorsement they've ever given to anybody who ran for president. So I'm very honored by all of that.

  Donald Trump

  Sarcastic, Strong, Second Amendment

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Home, Self, People

  6 Copy quote

• The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Firsts, Steps

  4 Copy quote