“That decision said that government employees, like Meriwether, have limited free speech rights when they are performing their jobs and that the First Amendment doesn’t protect them from disciplinary proceedings.”— Alex Bollinger, lgbtqnation.com
“The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. They say that violates the prohibition against church and state.”— Rush Limbaugh, amazon.com
“When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.”— Tim Cook, time.com
“Yes, if I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment, which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government. I mean, that was the main kind of speech…”— Antonin Scalia, cnn.com
“You tell me which of these children's mothers are a 'son of a b.' That is racism. You cannot deny it, you cannot run from it. I kneel in honor of them....I kneel in front of the flag on the House floor. I kneel in honor of the First Amendment. I kneel because the flag is a symbol for freedom. I knee…”— Sheila Jackson Lee, chron.com
“Trump blocking me is synecdoche. He's trying to block out every dissenting person, any person with a contrary view, anyone who is critical of him.”— Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter-Poza, cosmopolitan.com
“We in America pride ourselves on freedom of the press, but every day I see, and so do you, this kind of dishonesty and distortion not only in this area but in reporting—about guys like me, for instance, which is of minor importance except to me; but also in reporting world news. How can a free peopl…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“Majority rule means tyranny. Ninety-nine percent of the people don’t give a shit. For 50 years now, studies by various statistical-measuring services have shown that most people, if they had to vote on the US Constitution, would vote it down. Most people feel that homosexuals should not teach in our…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that. I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.”— Al Goldstein, books.google.com
“I had to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge say ‘twenty-five years in prison’ before I realized that freedom of expression could never be taken for granted.”— Larry Flynt, esquire.com
“The change begins with the post about Thiel’s sexual identity in a homophobic investor culture, the post Thiel now cites as the inspiration for his decision to destroy Gawker. It was solidly protected by media law and the First Amendment, as were the other posts that, as Thiel wrote, ‘attacked and m…”— Tom Scocca, gawker.com
“Allowing a jury to bankrupt a publisher, over content that the Florida appeals court already held was a matter of legitimate public concern, is extremely dangerous.”— Chuck Tobin, usatoday.com