Best Amendments Quotes

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

I’m not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

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.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America’s most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

We’ve got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

‘The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.’

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we’ve got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians’ stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Government…may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another… The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.

Im 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe its not just a hunting right. Its a right for everyone to carry their weapons.

We don’t have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

1913 wasn’t a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

Everyone knows that due process means judicial process, and when John Brennan brings him a list of people to be killed this particular week, that’s not due process. That’s certainly not judicial process. So there’s the fifth amendment. Not even George Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without due process.

Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process.

The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives – without probable cause and without a warrant.

You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you’re guilty of perjury.

If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

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.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights … why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?… Why shouldn’t executions be public?

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.