James Lankford Quotes

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

The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.

I believe in the First Amendment.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

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.

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.

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

We don't have the right under the 1st Amendment to act as the national program director.

Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment.

We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.

The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If, then, we truly believe in the liberty of conscience, speech and press, we must place ourselves again squarely upon the declaration of rights made by our forefathers, and defend the right of others to disagree with us, even about the beneficence of government

The Liberty of Conscience and of the Press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United States

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.

As a young constitutional lawyer, I was put to the first amendment test when I was called on to defend racists and neo-Nazis. I really had no choice. Surely now we know that none of us do. Free speech is unequivocal, unpolitical, and indivisible.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

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