Donald Trump Quotes

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms.

Asked random questions about the First Amendment and how they would like to have it applied, if you believe in polls at all, the average American wants no part of it. But if you ask, 'What if we threw the Constitution away tomorrow?' the answer is 'No, that would be bad!' But living under the Constitution is another story altogether.

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

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

We had a responsibility to represent all people whose 1st Amendment rights were at risk

We all find flag burning repugnant. We find burning crosses repugnant. But they have been burning crosses longer than they have been burning flags and there has been no rush for a constitutional amendment to stop the burning of crosses.

There is no security in the profered system, either for the rights of conscience or the liberty of the Press.

It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article's assurance.

… our respect for First Amendment freedoms is one of the few values that still rises above partisan politics.

Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

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

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

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

Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of the press. These are enshrined. And yet, freedom of the press has been curtailed.

I believe in the First Amendment.

There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.