The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political “mistakes” without being subjected to governmental penalties. | 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 or write. | Among the religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, ethical culture, secular humanism and others. | The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. | What finally emerges from the ‘clear and present danger’ cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished…It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow. |
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