Best Amendment Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“My brothers and sisters in arms fought so that our five fundamental freedoms, enshrined in the First Amendment, could never be undermined, not to see people's freedom of speech and right to privacy eviscerated.”

“We will protect the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms.”

“Prior to the 16th Amendment, which authorized the individual income tax, tariffs had been one of the federal government's chief sources of funding.”

“You've got your extreme right-wing guys, who want to have not just the 2nd amendment, owning a gun, but they want a whole arsenal. They've gone a little bit too far - in my opinion.”

“I will not sign a piece of legislation that has anything to do with imposing limitations on our Second Amendment.”

“I love the Second Amendment's protections, and like many law-abiding citizens of the U.S., cherish the right it enshrines for my family to have a means to protect itself.”

“The Second Amendment is key to how this country was founded. The Founders put it in place so we could defend ourselves from enemies, foreign and domestic, to be honest with you, and honestly, we need to be able to keep and bear to protect ourselves, to protect our families, and to protect our country.”

“I am a strong supporter and proponent of the Second Amendment. Always have been.”

“The Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of us all - from ordinary citizens up to candidates for president. If we allow this precious right to be ignored when dealing with a presidential campaign, it can be ignored when dealing with the rest of us.”

“Illiberal feminists turn simple ideological disagreements, whether about the federal budget or the Second Amendment or anything else, into excuses to engage in character assassination, dismissing their opponents as sexists.”

“The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success in preserving and protecting the Second Amendment.”

“If President Obama had his way, the United States would be just like Britain and Australia, where handguns were confiscated and remain banned with little to show for it. Thankfully, the Second Amendment and the American people will not stand for it.”

“Leftists hate the Second Amendment and our freedoms. They don't want us Americans to be able to defend ourselves, families, and children or our country and rights.”

“I've been a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I'm going to continue to do that.”

“I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.”

“A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.”

“In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.”

“Walter Isaacson attracts the best and the brightest to Aspen. It is exhilarating to listen to the likes of David Rubenstein and constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen speak about George Washington and Newt Gingrich and the original intent of the Second Amendment.”

“Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which lets him do that.”

“We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.”

“They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you're a threat to the university community. But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree.”

“I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.”

“We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.”

“There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.”

“I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.”

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

“In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.”

“I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.”

“I have supported the equal rights amendment since I was a freeholder. You won't find many people who can say that. I'm very proud of it.”

“I'm proud to stand up and defend against threats to our Second Amendment rights in Congress.”

“Many bills and many amendments that get passed get passed by a voice vote. They don't actually get voted in by roll call, meaning all 435 members don't vote on many of the bills.”

“I have been and will continue to be 100% pro-Second Amendment, without any exceptions, and will not support passage of red flag laws. Period.”

“The ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote marked a major turning point for America.”

“I'm a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I've owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.”

“I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.”

“As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.”

“If the U.N. gun-ban treaty is ever signed and ratified into law, we may never get a second chance to save the Second Amendment.”

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

“What Bloomberg and his elitist cronies will never understand is what saves the Second Amendment is the tidal wave of support from the majority of the American people. And decade after decade, NRA has been their voice.”

“Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.”

“The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.”

“In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.”

“I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.”

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

“The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.”

“It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.”

“The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.”

“Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.”

“Our Second Amendment rights are not up for negotiation.”

“What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.”

“It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.”

“The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.”

“I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.”

“I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.”

“Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.”

“When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.”

“I do support and believe in the Second Amendment. But I do think we need more background checks rather than less.”

“When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.”

“The last thing I saw Gabrielle Giffords do on the floor of the House of Representatives was to line up like the rest of us and read a part of the Constitution. And unbeknownst to her, when she got to the well, her part was the First Amendment.”

“We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.”

“I oppose the personhood amendment. Years ago I'd said that I'd supported it - it was the wrong idea. Looking at it, talking to people of Colorado, I don't support it.”

“I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.”

“I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.”

“The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.”

“Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.”

“I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.”

“Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.”

“The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.”

“When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.”

“The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.”

“I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.”

“I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.”

“Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.”

“I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.”

“Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.”

“I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.”

“The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.”

“The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.”

“For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.”

“The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.”

“Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.”

“I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.”

“As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'”

“The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?”

“A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your opponent's nose - even in the matter of political rhetoric.”

“Let's remember, the Second Amendment has been around for over 200 years.”

“There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.”

“Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.”

“The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.”

“The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.”

“The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.”

“When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.”

“From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.”

“If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.”

“Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.”

“I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.”

“I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.”

“Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.”

“I want to regain my First Amendment rights.”

“And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.”