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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
"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."
"The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized."
"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."
"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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