First-amendment Quotes

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one ...

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down...

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principl...

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying inte...

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...