Occupation: Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Birth: February 27, 1886 Death: September 25, 1971
The press was to serve the governed, not the governors..
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 ….
I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must b….
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 enem….
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion..
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..
There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has..
The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protect….
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional..
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 Govern….
We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circu….
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment….
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 ot….
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 f….
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges v….
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted an….
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientious….
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….
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon..
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be com….