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2007 January 26
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"Our First Amendment expresses
a far different calculus for regulating speech
than for regulating nonexpressive conduct
and that is as it should be.
The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose,
but your right to express your ideas
should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears." |
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"The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from
incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and
violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the
constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly
in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion." |
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2007 January 25
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"Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press… There is room for all of us – and for our divergent views – under the First Amendment." |
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"There is no such thing as an achieved liberty:
like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and
it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out." |
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2007 January 24
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"To permit every interest group, especially those who claim to be victimized by unfair expression, their own legislative exceptions to the First Amendment so long as they succeed in obtaining a majority of legislative votes in their favor demonstrates the potentially predatory nature of what defendants seek through this Ordinance." |
"The American constitutions were to liberty,
what a grammar is to language:
they define its parts of speech and
practically construct them into syntax." |
"Government cannot make us equal;
it can only recognize, respect, and
protect us as equal before the law." |
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2007 January 23
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"[Americans] certainly are not great writers,
but they speak their country's language
and they make themselves heard." |
"I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence." |
"None of us would trade freedom of expression
for the narrowness of the public censor.
America is a free market for people
who have something to say, and
need not fear to say it." |
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2007 January 22
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." |
"The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals.
It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been
historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets
of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest." |
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