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• Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each…
• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it…
• The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully…
• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people…
• There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
• No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional…
• Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they…
• The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not…
• A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
• I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils…

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