(206 quotes found)
“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.”
Dale E. Turner
“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
Will Rogers
“The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them”
Confucius
“You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.”
Harry S Truman
“I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.”
Jon Stewart
“The First Amendment does not cover burping”
Nancy Cartwright
“The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.”
William Orville Douglas
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy.”
“In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.”
John Perry Barlow
