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The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
Hugo Black / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom Of The Press
Governors
Presses
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The United States has a system of taxation by confession
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America
Irs
United States
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
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Made
Protect
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
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Protect
Suspicious
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
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Degrade
Destroy
Union
Tends
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.
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Government
Liberty
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I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
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Government
Believe
Mean
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There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
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Men
Justice
Trials
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Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.
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Loyalty
Government
Country
Heart
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The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
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Disregard
Should
Standards
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The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
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Lasting Happiness
Purpose
Self
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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
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Believe
Kentucky
Scotch Whisky
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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
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Society
Layman
Likes
Unconstitutional
Views
Constitutional
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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Government
Founding
Free Press
Protection
Government Free People
Bare
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Gave
Must
Inform
Press
Secrets
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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Government
Father
People
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No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.
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Attendance
Church
Religious
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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 successive political wind.
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Constitution
Judging
Patriotic
Wave
Wind
Blown
Judges
Sands
Successive
Washed
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
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Firsts
Political
Religious
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History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.
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Government
People
Support
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Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.
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Loyalty
Country
Heart
Spring
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
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Peace
Home
War
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Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.
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Citizenship
Light
Names
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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 breach.
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Church
Religious
Wall
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Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press
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Government
Criticism
Sanctuary
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Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
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Criticism
Free Speech
Portions
Sanctuary
Speech
Amendment
Embraces
Finds
Press
Several
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Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
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Freedom
Mean
Writing
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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
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Government
War
Afterlife
Founders
Newspapers
Revealing
Trusted
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Hoped
Led
Nobly
Precisely
Workings
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
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Change
Friendship
Constitution
Enemy
Framers
Free Speech
Revolution
Speech
Tyranny
Also
Friend
Deadliest
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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, not as the Government commands.
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Country
Thinking
Writing
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The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.
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Lying
Mistake
Organization
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
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Funny
Humor
Sports
Advice
Tennis
Doctor
Carefully
Wait
Hardly
Heeded
Reached
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We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.
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Believe
Judging
Trials
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Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
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Constitution
Justice
Mean
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
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Men
Bills
Rights
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Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.
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Buddhism
Country
Law
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No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
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Practice
Religious
Support
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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 that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
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Lasting
Paradox
Pleasure
Purpose
Condition
Aiming
Life Happiness Purpose
Miss
Seek
Outside
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.
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Gun
Rights
Thinking
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It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.
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Country
Crime
Progress
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
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Government
Deceiving
Duty
Free Press
Land
Paramount
Responsibility
Die
Government Free People
Among
Shot
Distant
Foreign
Lands
Press
Responsibilities
Sending
Shell
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
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New York
History
Father
Views
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
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New York
History
Condemnation
Courageous
Deserving
Founding
New York Times
Purpose
Serving
Clearly
Washington
Far
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Saw
Post
Reporting
View
Washington Post
York
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The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.
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Church
Expression
Principles
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The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.
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Blow
Suffering
Wind
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Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.
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Abuse
People
Sex
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When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.
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Government
Religious
Support
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[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
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Bills
Evil
Rights
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That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.
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Doe
Groups
Religious
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The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.
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Government
Security Systems
Views
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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 guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.
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Government
Military
Real
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