Quote from John Marshall Harlan 

"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."

Quote by:
John Marshall Harlan
(1833–1911), US Supreme Court Justice, 1877–1911
Source:
Patterson v. Colorado (1907)
 
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