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• The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a…
• Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
• The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under…
• To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
• I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),…
• For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or…
• The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
• The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free…
• We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that…
• Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
• It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
• A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

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