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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 Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

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

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

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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 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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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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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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