293+ Impressive First Amendment Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin

Impressive First Amendment quotations

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

First amendment quote The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. — The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

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.

First amendment quote You have to be odd to be number one. — You have to be odd to be number one.

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

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.

The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

First amendment quote Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure — Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

First amendment quote First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare. — First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.

The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

First amendment quote Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening — Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

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.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

First amendment quote If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it. — If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it.

For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision.

By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

First amendment quote Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesso — Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.

The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

I don't want to be shut out from the truth.

If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

First amendment quote To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate. — To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

First amendment quote To change your body you must first change your mind. — To change your body you must first change your mind.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much.

That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

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.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient.

But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

First amendment quote Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. — Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty;

the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.

There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment;

the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

First amendment quote At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. — At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.

Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another.

Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.