The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people..

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith..

The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Ne….

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….

When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon reli….

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 Amend….

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 no….

We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in….

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 for….

The United States has a system of taxation by confession.

The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacr….

No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shi….

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 brea….

The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one p….

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted the….

[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 eme….

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

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….

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….

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 public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges v….