'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And each generation… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed.… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
If the case is close, 5-4, and let's say you are on the side that prevailed with the majority, there are not a lot… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
