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.


Orrin Hatch

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The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
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The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment...
BILL ROSENDAHL
The military must be very careful in not violating an individual's First Amendment rights,
JOE CURTIN
A student's right of expression is protected by the First Amendment.
HUGH GOTTSCHALK
If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then ther...
KEN CUCCINELLI
Where the disclosure is of newsworthy information and it is made by an entity that did not act illeg...
FLOYD ABRAMS
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights...
NAOMI WOLF
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
L. NEIL SMITH
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must desc...
DOUG OSE
We wish we did not have to take this action, but we must protect the First Amendment rights of video...
BO ANDERSEN
I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or ...
ANDREW BREITBART
This case presents the tension between property rights and speech. When disclosure also presents a m...
IAN BALLON
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The First Amendment is not a shield for illegal conduct by journalists, or journalists' sources.
GEORGE RILEY
Sadly, it is not surprising that Americans' knowledge about the First Amendment is clearly lacking a...
CLAY CALVERT
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF
The First Amendment does not cover burping
NANCY CARTWRIGHT
The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
JAMES LANKFORD
an absurd violation of our First Amendment rights.
MICHAEL MOORE
Our mission is both to ensure that the First Amendment rights of our members are not trampled upon b...
JACK SHEA
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually
ROBERT H. BORK
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
ANTHONY LEWIS
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th...
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Jefferson wasn't really a primary author of the First Amendment. But Jefferson was the author of th...
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The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort, ... Apple ...
KURT OPSAHL
The snuffing out of sound is not a permissible exercise under the First Amendment,
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The courts demand that every religious person must accommodatea single atheist who might be 'offende...
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I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not...
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I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
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Generally speaking, private and religious schools are not subject to the First Amendment.
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He is inclined to the view of the First Amendment that the government is not intended to be hostile ...
DOUGLAS W. KMIEC
Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.
SCOTT HOWELL
I'm going to put freedom first and that freedom is the Second Amendment.
FRANK SCHACKELFORD
First come, first served, First Amendment. This is one of the few places where a community has the c...
CHAD JOHNSTON
good first step, but our ultimate goal is repeal of the Wright Amendment.
ED STEWART
Our position - our case - is built on clear legal precedent. The [U.S.] Supreme Court has even ruled...
DANIEL MOORE
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the mo...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.
ARON RA
It is not up to any industry or the government to set standards for what kids can see or do; that is...
DOUGLAS LOWENSTEIN
It is ironic, ... that a media company that should be seeking to protect the First Amendment is seek...
DENNY CHIN
I believe this really upholds the First Amendment and is sound educationally.
CHARLES HAYNES
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is tro...
HANK JOHNSON
You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
KENNETH EADE
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
JOHN PERRY BARLOW
The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights a...
JAMES ROGERS
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...
LARRY CRAIG
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...
LARRY CRAIG
Government-mandated multi-casting requirements ... would constitute a 'taking' of cable operators' p...
KYLE MCSLARROW
All colleges and universities, inside the Seventh Circuit or not, should affirm their commitment to ...
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA
The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must no...
ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into mag...
CALVIN TRILLIN
Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL
express his First Amendment right by picking up a spray can and painting a canvas with [him].
MARC ECKO
The first amendment [guaranteeing free speech] is alive and well here in Herndon.
CHARLIE WADDELL
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
FLOYD ABRAMS
It's a public school system. It's bound by the First Amendment.
GREG LUKIANOFF
It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and Americ...
LOUIE GOHMERT
It is our hope that once Tyrone dons the costume, he will realize that even non-Christians are not o...
BILL DONOHUE
You would not just be violating the First Amendment, but be hurting the very customers you're trying...
KYLE MCSLARROW
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amend...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them pass...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.
BILL FLORES
you begin to torment and torture the First Amendment.
JACK VALENTI
The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertisin...
JERRY YANG
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not abs...
JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not abso...
ANTHONY KENNEDY
The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.
TERRY BRADSHAW
I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
This agreement resolves our First Amendment concerns regarding prior restraint of the right to gathe...
GEORGE COX
is the foundation of our judicial system as well as the founding of our nation, and that to remove i...
BRIAN CHAVEZ
If we don't know our rights, then the government can easily stop those rights ... knowing the First ...
CLAY CALVERT
Our First Amendment rights are not given to us by the government but are rights we inherently posses...
REPUBLICAN PARTY
All of our raw material suppliers must be approved by McDonald's and have to meet certain standards ...
ED SANCHEZ
Our first amendment rights are irreparably harmed, every day the gag continues,
ANN BEESON
Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c...
JAMES MADISON
There are few things more precious on any university campus than freedom of thought and expression, ...
LEE BOLLINGER
Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment.
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
[The upcoming case] is an important priority for Penn because we have a policy that says that recrui...
AMY GUTMANN
Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargai...
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ
The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. ...
BEN SHAPIRO
In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional r...
DIANA AVIV
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be ...
ADRIAN CRONAUER
The Justice Department is disappointed by the court's declaration that the Children's Internet Prote...
BARBARA COMSTOCK
The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
ROY BARNES
That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any w...
JO MANEY
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray...
GERMAINE GREER
The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the ...
ANTONIN SCALIA
I don't think the First Amendment trumps everything.
TOM KEITH
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the...
E. B. WHITE
[While Hatch blames the loss on last-minute opposition whipped up by President Bill Clinton, the Whi...
MIKE MCCURRY
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who ...
NOAM CHOMSKY
Everyone involved with this misguided law has known from the start that it is an unconstitutional in...
DOUGLAS LOWENSTEIN
One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not ...
THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA
These provisions, if adopted, would have a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of the Amer...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, bu...
ULRICH BECK
The law schools are taking a position on First Amendment grounds, and that position is in interferen...
DAVID SOUTER
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
LARRY FLYNT
The newest battlefield in the fight to protect the First Amendment is the Internet, ... The Internet...
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