Quotes About Amendment

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

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.

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

Since 2000, I have proposed changing the Constitution so that our popular vote decides the presidency.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution.

The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

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 final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

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

I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry.

I believe in the First Amendment.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

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

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

If we don't have the ability to keep and bear arms, then who knows when they are going to decide they want to take the First Amendment away from us, or one of the other amendments.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.