First Amendment Rights Quotes

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

I definitely support free speech.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.

No one took H.U.A.C. [House Un-American Activities Committee] seriously until it was too late.

Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.

Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news…. I’m convinced that if reporters should ever lose the right to protect the confidentiality of their sources then serious investigative reporting will simply dry up.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

You can't come up and attack someone because of free speech.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Since we don't have a tyrant or a dictator, we can't put people who are burning flag in jail. But Donald Trump is telling you what he thinks of 'em. He's not gonna do anything of the sort. This is where people go off the rails with Trump, with this literal business and so fort