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First Quotes by Hugo Black
- The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest…
- The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
- An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
- Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if…
- I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
- The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish,…
- The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for…
- The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment…
- The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The…
- It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is…
- The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power nor the prestige of the Federal Government would…
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