Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Quote by William O Douglas

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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with...

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with...

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to...

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to...

Common sense often makes good law.

Common sense often makes good law.

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political...

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political...

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying...

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying...

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great...

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great...

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The...

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The...

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth...

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth...

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the...

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the...

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.