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"When they took the 4th amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st amendment, and I can only be quiet." »Lyle Myhur
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"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error." »Seneca
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"In Cyberspace, the First amendment is a local ordinance." »John Perry Barlow
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)" »Oliver L. North
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"You know why there's a Second amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one." »Rush Limbaugh
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"The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not." »C. C. Colton
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"The First amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." »Justice Anthony Kennedy
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"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment." »Thomas Jefferson
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"We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place." »Ronald Reagan
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"The Second amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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"I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him" »Ronald Reagan
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead
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"The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'" »Ken Konecki
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