Top First Amendment Quotes

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 defea

Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked this question: Have you read a book fro...

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech m...

In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of c...

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.