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The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced in the hands of each of us, in the hope that the use of such freedom will ultimately produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political systems rests.

– John Marshall Harlan II  Famous Quote

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The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

– Justice William J. Brennan  Famous Quote

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we only pass laws against people who obey the law. Drug dealers, bank robbers and rapists don’t care what we do because they willfully violate the law anyway.

– Rod Wright  Famous Quote

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The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

– P. D. Ouspensky  Famous Quote

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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

– Chief Justice Earl Warren  Famous Quote

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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents

– Robert F. Kennedy  Famous Quote

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I should, indeed, prefer twenty men to escape death through mercy, than one innocent to be condemned unjustly.

– Sir John Fortescue  Famous Quote

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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

– Henry Fielding  Famous Quote

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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

– Charles-Louis de Secondat  Famous Quote

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A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.

– Bruce Lee  Famous Quote

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Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

– J. Gresham Machen  Famous Quote

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Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

– Justice Charles Evans Hughes  Famous Quote

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

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Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

– Antonio Gramsci  Famous Quote

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I cannot assent to the view, if it be meant that the legislature may impair or abridge the rights of a free press and of free speech whenever it thinks that the public welfare requires that it be done. The public welfare cannot override constitutional privilege.

– John Marshall Harlan  Famous Quote

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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

– Felix Frankfurter  Famous Quote

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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make no law which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that no law does not mean what it says, that no law is qualified to mean some laws. I cannot take this step.

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

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Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence.

– Voltairine de Cleyre  Famous Quote

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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country... Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech.'

– Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  Famous Quote

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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 others from publishing is not.

– Justice Hugo L. Black  Famous Quote

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The most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government to be educated.

– Neal Boortz  Famous Quote

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I claim for the nation an education that depends only on the State, because children of the State must be raised by members of the State.

– Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais  Famous Quote

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You can't save free markets by socialism, I don't know where this idea ever came from. You save free markets by promoting free markets and sound money and balanced budgets. The whole reason why nobody wants to address the real problem is, we're spending a trillion dollars a year overseas running an empire, and it's coming to an end. This country is bankrupt, and we won't admit it. Eventually though, the dollar will go bust, and we will bring our troops home, and we will live within our means, but we ought to do it sensibly, rather than waiting for the collapse of the dollar, and this is what we're doing, we're on the verge of destroying our dollar. And then, you think we have problems now, problems then will be a lot worse, it'd look like the Weimar Republic, or a third world nation. And a lot of people know that, and they're scared to death, but we don't need to be making the problem worse by just propping up everything with more government programs, more inflation, and more helicopters, it won't work.

– Ron Paul  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs -- even when we benefit from them. I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

– Charles Koch  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

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