1st Amendment Quotes

Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government. ~ A.E. Samaan

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. ~ Byron White

Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada. ~ Matt Shea

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but actually respect them for those beliefs? Because nothing less than that will do. It can't. Simply tolerating someone who believes differently than we do isn't enough. "Accepting" them isn't enough. Having true and abiding peace with them means loving them. And that means respecting them. Because love without respect isn't real love at all. It's at best condescending patronization. ~ John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

The threat of lawsuits has increased public awareness of the dangers of smoking and has made tobacco companies market their dangerous nicotine delivery systems more responsibly. The threat of lawsuits has made all kinds of products safer. For example, over the last forty years or so, automobile deaths have been cut nearly in half by safety features in cars, developed and implemented in response to lawsuits. ~ Mark M. Bello

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change. ~ Wendy Davis

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? ~ Antonin Scalia

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment. ~ Ronald Reagan

I did not fall into love - I rose into love. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing ages like laziness. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep the government from running the Church. But it is not to keep Christian principles out of the government. ~ Thomas Jefferson

A phone beeped quietly and she woke. It was morning. Friday the 30th of April. One day before May 1st, and Greta Dapple's birthday, and the Summer of Light, when the world would tear itself apart. What a cheery, happy thought to wake up to. ~ Derek Landy

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?' ~ Peter Drucker

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can. ~ Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment. ~ Sonia Johnson

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. ~ George Villiers, 1st Duke Of Buckingham

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
And hive the the trifty sweetness for December! ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth ~ Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don't even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that's wrong. ~ Judy Blume

In 'United States v. Brignoni-Ponce,' the Court concluded that it was permissible under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for the police to use race as a factor in making decisions about which motorists to stop and search. In that case, the Court concluded that the police could take a person's Mexican appearance into account when developing reasonable suspicion that a vehicle may contain undocumented immigrants. The Court said that "the likelihood that any person of Mexican ancestry is an alien is high enough to make Mexican appearance a relevant factor." Some commentators have argued that 'Brignoni-Ponce' may be limited to the immigration context; the Court might not apply the same principle to drug-law enforcement. It is not obvious what the rational basis would be for limiting overt race discrimination by police to immigration. The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an "alien" could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any black person is a drug criminal. ~ Michelle Alexander

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. ~ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

December, 1865, of the celebrated 13th article or amendment of the Constitution, which declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude - except as a punishment for crime - shall exist within the United States. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

. . . I may need to put the fear of God into a lawyer and his son. Perhaps we can clarify the cost of suing Barrington Arms and not being reasonable in trying to resolve the lawsuit? ~ Mark M. Bello

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

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment. ~ Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

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

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Our love must be stronger than their hate. ~ Mark M. Bello

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. ~ Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment. ~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.