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I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says. -- Hugo Black
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. -- Hugo Black
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The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. -- Hugo Black
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. -- Hugo Black
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There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has. -- Hugo Black
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The Establishment Clause ... stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders ... that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate. -- Hugo Black
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The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us. -- Hugo Black
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes." -- Hugo Black
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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. [Progressive] -- Hugo Black
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Among 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. -- Hugo Black
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. -- Hugo Black
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[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many. -- Hugo Black
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Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. -- Hugo Black
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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. -- Hugo Black
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It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes. -- Hugo Black
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No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution-of whatever race, creed or persuasion. -- Hugo Black
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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. -- Hugo Black
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The United States has a system of taxation by confession -- Hugo Black
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. -- Hugo Black
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The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ... -- Hugo Black
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad. -- Hugo Black
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. -- Hugo Black
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No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance. -- Hugo Black
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Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death. -- Hugo Black
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Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. -- Hugo Black
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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. -- Hugo Black
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When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain. -- Hugo Black
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. -- Hugo Black
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The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement. -- Hugo Black
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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. -- Hugo Black
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The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. -- Hugo Black
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age ... The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today. -- Hugo Black
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Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. -- Hugo Black
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The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties. -- Hugo Black
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Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government. -- Hugo Black
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That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them. -- Hugo Black
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Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. -- Hugo Black
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No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion. -- Hugo Black
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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
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Sex is a fact of life ... and while it may lead to abuses ... no words need be spoken ... for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself. -- Hugo Black
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[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith. -- Hugo Black
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We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case. -- Hugo Black
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. -- Hugo Black
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. -- Hugo Black
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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. -- Hugo Black