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…

- Hugo Black

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

- Hugo Black

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

- Hugo Black

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…

- Hugo Black

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

- Hugo Black

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…

- Hugo Black

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 …

- Hugo Black

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.

- Hugo Black

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

- Hugo Black