Charles Evans Hughes Quotes

Our birthright under the 1st Amendment is to foster the voices of dissent.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

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

The right of peaceable assembly and of petition ... is the constitutional substitute for revolution.

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

I'm going to defend the right of people to freely gather and discuss whatever they want to.

The American Civil Liberties Union has a reputation for serving as a 'guardian of liberty,' protecting our privacy and the First Amendment rights of speech, association and assembly.

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.

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

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

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

Freedom of speech, freedom to criticize pillars of government, freedom to form parties and freedom of the press within the framework of the constitution are among the absolute rights of the public.

The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…. The right to protest should be commensurate with the enormity of the wrongs that are being protested.

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.

Everybody has a right to petition their government and petition it in terms that are relevant to themselves…. Everyone has the right to speak their mind. If your mind is faith-based, then speak that way.

Although the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment may benefit society generally, or communities in particular, we don't condition those freedoms on whether how we use them benefits anyone.

No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America; peace and retirement to the President; Long Live the Vice President.

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.

The right of peaceful assembly is not a Western value. This is a universal right!.

Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.

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

India is the biggest democracy. We have the right to say what we want to say, and people have the right to protest.