Quotes of: First-amendment Keyword

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

Al Sharpton

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.

Limerick

It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes

Martin Powell

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Newt Gingrich

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

Laurence Tribe

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill

Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

Laurence Tribe

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Samuel Richardson

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

Adrian Cronauer

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

William O. Douglas

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would ha...

Christopher Hitchens

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

Chances

If you want to make amends for the life you have led then start now.

The Children of Isador

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

Ogden Nash

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Ken Buck

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

Muhammad Yunus

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

Brendan Fraser

The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.

Sharron Angle

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Herb Kohl