Right To Petition Quotes

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.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition—well, they are still radical ideas.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

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.

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

We [Russia] and America both have freedom of speech. The only difference is that Americans have freedom after they speak.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the 1st Amendment.

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

The Bill of Rights

How can that popular will express itself except by meetings, by speeches, by publications, by petitions, and by addresses to the representatives of the people? Any man who seeks to set a limit upon those rights, whether in war or peace, aims a blow at the most vital part of our government.... And before this great fundamental right [freedom of speech] every other must, if necessary, give way, for in no other manner can representative government be preserved.

The people have a right to assemble together, to consult for their common good-to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances, by address, petition or remonstrance.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.