When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the… — 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 Image
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 Image
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
