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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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The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

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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 enem…

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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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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…

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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 …

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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…

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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

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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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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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